IRNA Families of two sailors of a cargo vessel in port city of Genaveh, who were arrested last year in Qatar called on Foreign Ministry to secure their release. Brother of one of sailors told Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Saturday that his brother 'Mohammad', who was captain of the cargo vessel when left Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for ...

IRNA A number of imprisoned sailors who had been arrested in late 2017 on charges of trespassing into Iran's waters were released and returned to Iran on Thursday. Following the efforts by the Iranian foreign ministry and the country's embassy in Kenya, 17 sailors who had illegally entered Somalia's territorial waters in October 2017 and were sentenced ...

IRNA - Ten Iranian sailors, arrested by the Pakistani authorities and kept in Karachi city jail, were released on Thursday due to the efforts by Iranian Consulate General and the follow-up of their case. Iranian sailors were captured while wandering on the sea and illegally entering the Pakistani territorial waters. The sailors returned home on an ...

IFP - Sailing is usually considered a muscular job worldwide. Women usually are not interested in the job given its demanding nature, but an Iranian woman has become a successful sailor. Raheleh Tahmasebi Sarvestani is an Iranian seawoman who says is in love with sailing even though you rarely see a woman on a ship as a sailor. She ...

IRNA Eight Iranian sailors who were arrested mistakenly by Seychelles Coastguard and anti-drugs officials in the Indian Ocean in April 2016, were released by the mediations of Irans Foreign Ministry, said a local official on Tuesday. Eight Iranians and 8 Pakistanis charged with narcotic drug trafficking were captured by Seychelles Coast Guard and ...

Press TV- Eight Iranian sailors have been freed from captivity of pirates in Somalia, an Iranian lawmakerhas announced, as efforts continue for the release of the remaining captives. Ali Yar Mohammadi, an Iranian MP said Monday that the eight sailors were freed as a result of negotiations between Senegals embassy in Somalia and the pirates....

Iranian Diplomacy- A new online campaign has once again turned heads to Iranian sailors who were abducted aboard a fishing boat by Somali pirates some two years ago. The campaign gathering momentum on Twitter and Facebook is collecting signatures for a letter addressed to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, urging him and the countrys diplomatic ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 05 (MNA) 11 Iranian sailors of a fishing vessel seized in the south of India, will be released and sent back home in the near future, the Consulate General of Islamic Republic of Iran in Hyderabad reported. Hassan Nourian said on Monday the Indian court had already agreed to release ten of them, while during Monday meeting with the ...