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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A navy (often Navy) is the branch of a country's military forces principally designated for naval warfare, namely lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions.
		However, a few nations that lacked a navy but were faced with an enemy that was a strong naval power, such as Rome during the Punic wars, built a powerful navy from scratch.
		Navy ships normally operate with a group, which may be a small squadron of comparable vessels, or a larger naval fleet of various specialized ships.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Navy (2455 words)

	Iran Navy
		Iranian naval operations are organzied into five major zones, three on the Persian Gulf (Bandar Abbas, Bushehr and Khark), one on the Caspian Sea (Bandar Anzali), and one on the Indian Ocean (Chah Bahar).
		As of 2001 the regular Iranian navy was in a state of overall obsolescence, and in poor shape because they have not been equipped with modern ships and weapons.
		In January 2003 it was reported that the Iranian Navy had designed advanced gunboats and destroyers and missile launcher frigates in line with the goal of attaining self-sufficiency in the armed forces.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iran/navy.htm (1590 words)

	Islamic Republic of Iran Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Before 1971, the Iranian Navy operated mostly on equipment provided by the United States and the United Kingdom.
		The Iranian Navy attacked and seized control of a Romanian oil rig in the Persian Gulf on August 22, 2006.
		Operation Praying Mantis: The U.S. military retaliation for the Iranian mining of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_Navy (554 words)

	History of the Iranian Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The existence of an Iranian navy in one form or another has existed since Achaemenid times in 500 BC, however except for the Achimanid navy none of the following navies were particularly well organised or strong.
		It was only with the Pahlavi dynasty in the 20th century that Iran began to consider building a strong navy to project its strength into the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.
		Iran's goal has always been to provide escort for Iranian shipping in the Persian Gulf, as well as being able to disrupt enemy shipping, as was witnessed in the Iran-Iraq war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Iranian_Navy (330 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		By DAVID F. During the Spring of 1988, the U.S. Navy was engaged in Operation Earnest Will, which had as an objective to maintain freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf as Iraq and Iran continued to fight a seemingly endless war.
		Iranians stationed on both platforms resisted, but were overpowered by naval and helicopter gunfire.
		Besides losing a large portion of its navy, the Iranians suffered setbacks on land as an Iraqi assault reclaimed the Al Faw peninsula.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/sep_03_45.php (780 words)

	British Navy boats, sailors seized in Iranian waters \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The Navy was delivering the three boats to the Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service when the eight sailors from the Royal Navy training team were stopped on the Shatt al-Arab, a stretch of water that marks the southern boundary between Iran and Iraq.
		Iranian state television's Arabic-language channel, al-Alam, said Iranian military personnel had found assault rifles, pistols, cameras, maps of the Iran-Iraq border and global navigation devices on the boats.
		The Royal Navy spokesman disputed that the boats and military personnel aboard posed a threat, saying that although the British sailors were armed, as is customary, the small boats were not outfitted with weapons and are used to conduct patrols on the river.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040622/news_1n22seizure.html (484 words)

	MILNET Brief - Iranian Conventional Forces
		Even the small navy that Iran puts to sea is capable enough to harass shipping, and several cases of small boat operations against oil well heads in the Gulf during that period made it clear small asymmetrical tactics of the Iranian Navy could be quite effective.
		It is also significant that the Iranian Navy has shelters and covert hides along the coast in on islands under their control in the Gulf, and clearly look to dominate the Gulf should the need arrive.
		At the same time, Iranian conventional forces while certainly not at the top of the list in the region, are significant enough to pose a threat to their neighbors, especially with long range ballistic missiles, and most significantly to shipping in the Persian Gulf.
	www.milnet.com /Iranian-Military.html (2795 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - British seamen could face Iranian court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Iranian navy, in accordance with their duties, seized these boats and arrested the crew," spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said in a statement on Monday.
		Iranian state television's Arabic-language channel, Al-Alam, said Iranian forces had also seized GPS devices, assault rifles, pistols, cameras and detailed maps of the Iran-Iraq border area.
		Contacts with Iranian troops along that border area have generally been described by British sources as "cordial", and Monday's incident is the most serious in the sensitive area since last year's US-led invasion of Iraq.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/161E2F3B-CFC6-4559-986F-3195691A47BF.htm (806 words)

	Mobley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The United Kingdom declared that it was “deeply disturbed” that the Iranian navy had violated the territorial waters of the Tunbs (i.e., those of Ras Al Khaimah).
		Admiral Rasa’i, commander of the Iranian navy, complained to Commander, British Forces Gulf that a large RAF aircraft (presumably a Shackleton) had repeatedly overflown Tahmadou as it operated near the Tunbs.
		If the Iranians landed anyway, the British platoon was to “endeavor to restrict their further movement from the point of disembarkation without using force.” In no case were British military units to attack Iranian forces, whether or not they overran Abu Musa, except in self-defense or to defend the lives of island inhabitants.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2003/Autumn/art7-a03.htm (5209 words)

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		The Iranian Navy is the one branch of their armed forces that is always in contact with U.S. forces, and would be the first to engage if things got out of hand.
		The backbone of this navy is a force of missile-armed patrol craft, the modern equivalent of the PT boats that were so famous during World War II.
		This is a parallel force to the Iranian Navy (much as the Republican Guard operated in a parallel structure with the Iraqi Army under Saddam Hussein’s regime).
	www.strategypage.com /htmw/htsurf/articles/20060113.aspx (323 words)

	Iranian threat defined - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The probable Iranian conviction they have this ability must no doubt be perceived by them as greatly strengthening their position on nuclear development.
		The Telegraph goes on to quote "U.S. intelligence sources" that believe "if Iranian nuclear facilities were attacked by either America or Israel, Tehran would respond by trying to close the Strait of Hormuz with naval forces, mines and antiship missiles." One should add that such measures also could well be triggered just by sanctions.
		This vulnerability was well demonstrated by Navy reaction to the USS Cole attack, when, on June 22, 2001, the U.S. 5th Fleet hurriedly put out to sea from Bahrain in the face of just an al Qaeda threat.
	www.washtimes.com /commentary/20060617-113214-1247r.htm (804 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Enterprise (CVN 65)
		Navy tactical air attack sorties under Linebacker II were centered in the coastal areas around Hanoi and Haiphong.
		Iranian response to the destruction of the two oil platforms involved the dispatching of numerous gunboats to prey on various targets in the Arabian Gulf.
		The Iranian frigate was taken in tow by an Iranian tug with the stern partially submerged.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv65-enterprise/cv65-enterprise.html (3791 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		This is the first time that the Indian and Iranian navies will operate jointly but port calls by their ships have been made for years.
		Two Iranian warships, the Bandar Abas, described as a “fleet replenishment tanker” and the Lavan, a logistics support vessel, have docked in Mumbai on what was officially said to be a “routine, goodwill visit”.
		The navy now sees for itself a role stretching up to the Straits of Hormuz in the mouth of the Persian Gulf where the Iranian Navy has a major presence.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030309/asp/nation/story_1748845.asp (342 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Iran 'detains' Iraqi coastguards
		Basra Governor Muhammad al-Waili said the Iranian Navy had attacked the coastguards after they boarded a ship believed to be smuggling oil.
		"We call on the Iranian authorities to free the coastguards who were captured while conducting legitimate work on the Iraqi side of the Shatt al-Arab," he told the AFP news agency.
		Iranian navy speedboats then engaged the coastguards, he added.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/4619604.stm (394 words)

	At Sea, Relations With Iran 'Courteous, Professional' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		USS Lake Champlain, At Sea - Despite political tensions among Iran and other countries, exchanges between the Iranian Navy and coalition forces in the northern Persian Gulf are "fully courteous and professional," said Capt. Christopher Noble, during an interview here.
		Miller's command is centered on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and launches aircraft to support coalition forces in Iraq and maritime security operations in the gulf.
		Iranian navy personnel understand the modus operandi of ships at sea, and the craft sailing in the central gulf and at the straits are larger decks staffed by professionals.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,96256,00.html (446 words)

	Iranian navy has designed advanced gunboats and destroyers and missile launcher friga - Iran Defence Forum
		Iranian navy has designed advanced gunboats and destroyers and missile launcher friga
		Meanwhile, the officer said that the self-sufficiency department of the navy has also built three tug-boats which conforms with international standards and delivered them to the navy.
		He said that the department has managed to repair every kind of vessels being used in navy operations in man-made lakes of 26,000 tonsand 17,000 tons water.
	www.irandefence.net /showthread.php?t=847 (227 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Opinion, Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea, Guive Mirfendereski
		The truth about the Persian and the sea, as Laurence Lockhart has suggested, seems to have lain in a state of mind that was informed by a healthy respect for the sea, sporadic recognition of the need for sea power, and unavailability of resources and technical know-how.
		The other recurrent theme in the observations made about the Persian navy is about the tenacity by which the relics of the Persian navy litter the Persian landscape.
		The beginning of the Pahlavi navy in the Caspian was stirred by events not dissimilar to those that shaped Nader's experience.
	www.iranian.com /Books/2001/July/Caspian/index5.html (1906 words)

	Iran's Navy Goes Underwater to Win Persian Journal Latest Iran News
		The Navy has three submarines, about 20 frigates and large patrol boats, plus some amphibious warfare and mine warfare vessels, and a lot of small, fast attack craft.
		Apparently the purpose of the Navy is to conduct conventional operations against local navies in the Persian Gulf-Gulf of Oman area.
		Thus, one way or another, the future of the Iranian navy is under water.
	www.iranian.ws /iran_news/publish/printer_14725.shtml (351 words)

	Navy SEALs.com - Articles: Viewing Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was tested during an Iranian navy exercise in the Strait of Hormuz, location of the world's main oil shipping routes.
		The short usefulness of the torpedo is due to the likelihood that the Iranian navy has a limited number of Russian-made Shkvals, and once fired, the excited Iranian subâs presence would be distinguished and unquestionably sent to the bottom of the Persian Gulf, where hostilities most likely would break out.
		Its existence as proudly proclaimed by the Iranian regime is more effective in the context of propaganda than it is â“ as implied by the Iranians - a regional balance-of-power tilting weapon, which it most certainly is not.
	www.navyseals.com /community/articles/article.cfm?id=9539 (1057 words)

	Iranian submarine - Page 6 - Iran Defence Forum
		Also remember that, it was Iranian built weapons that slowed and brought the Yougoslavian army to halt in Bosnia and not the western weapons.
		Those baby steps paid off for Iranians to depend on their own eventhough the technology that they were building were outdated.
		The vessel is named the Nahang, meaning whale, and was “built by specialists in the Iranian defense ministry and has the capability to carry multipurpose weapons for different missions,” Rear Admiral Sajjad Kouchaki said.
	www.irandefence.net /showthread.php?p=7035 (1406 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		To India's west, in the Arabian Sea, the Indian Navy exercised with the navies of Iran and Oman in September and conducted port calls in both countries, as well as in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
		India is also upgrading the Iranian port of Chahbahar, a move that could foreshadow its use by the navy.
		Most striking of all, the Indian Navy is in the midst of a deployment to the South China Sea and beyond that is bringing Indian warships to ports in Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FK06Df05.html (890 words)

	Iranian navy conducts submarine manoeuvre in Persian Gulf
		Iranian navy conducts submarine manoeuvre in Persian Gulf
		Tehran, May 13, IRNA -- The first phase of submarine manoeuvre titled "Unity 83 " started on Wednesday by Islamic Republic of Iran Navy in the third marine zone of the armed forces in Chahbahar port.
		Objectives of this manoeuvre are promoting the defense capability, increasing operational forces` readiness, strategic power demonstration, and facilitating the navy`s new advanced terminals that are fully planned and constructed by Iranian Navy personnel.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/may/1089.html (194 words)

	A New Navy For A New Era
		The Navy eventually deployed roughly 25 percent of the combat aircraft in theater, yet mounted only 17 percent of the air-to-ground missions, and delivered only 7 percent of the precision-guided munitions (which proved to be the most effective means of attacking Iraqi targets).
		Worse still, internal Navy planning documents suggest that the cost of the Navy’s procurement plans may, on average, be as much as $6-7 billion (FY 1997 dollars) higher per year over the FY 2002-2016 period than the level of funding currently proposed for Navy procurement in FY 2001.
		To increase the pressure on Iranian forces and to better protect the civilian populations of U.S. allies in the region, Air Force tactical aircraft are deployed to bases in the Gulf, while the Fifth Fleet carriers are directed still closer to shore.
	www.csbaonline.org /4Publications/Archive/R.19960500.A_New_Navy_For_A_N/R.19960500.A_New_Navy_For_A_N.htm (16610 words)

	Hundreds of Fathoms
		Navy spokesman Lt. Justin Cole would not identify the website or its owner, but said the information had been removed.
		The initial discovery was made by the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command, which routinely monitors the internet for such problems.
		Dad rarely talks about his Navy career and the two wars he served during even though he had a chest full of ribbons, and a sleeve length of gold four year service strips.
	lubbers-line.blogspot.com (1934 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Iranian navy, in accordance with their duties, seized these boats and arrested the crew," spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said in a statement, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
		Iranian official sources said the small patrol boats were armed with heavy machine-guns, and identified the detained Britons as "Royal Navy commandos".
		A Royal Navy spokesman at the British Defense Ministry in London, meanwhile, playing it down as a "low-level incident", saying the three small boats appeared to have "strayed into Iranian territory," according to AFP.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2004-06/21/article05.shtml (611 words)

	Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iraqi society is divided along lines of language, religion and ethnicity; Saddam's government rested on the support of the 20% minority of largely working-class, peasant, and lower middle class Sunni Muslims, continuing a pattern that dates back at least to the British mandate authority's reliance on them as administrators.
		On March 16, 1988, the Kurdish town of Halabja was attacked with a mix of mustard gas and nerve agents, killing 5,000 civilians, and maiming, disfiguring, or seriously debilitating 10,000 more.
		The Iranians, claiming that the international community should force Iraq to pay the casualty of the war to Iran, refused any suggestions for a cease-fire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saddam_Hussein (9997 words)

	CNN.com - Iran 'hints British may be freed' - Jun 22, 2004
		The ministry said the Iranian Navy confiscated weapons and maps along with the ships when the vessels were stopped Monday.
		Foreign Secretary Jack Straw spoke with Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi early Tuesday before reports surfaced that the sailors and Marines might be prosecuted, a UK Foreign Office representative said.
		Iranian media Tuesday reported that the British boats had entered Iran's territorial waters illegally and had gotten too close to an oil jetty near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.uk/index.html (851 words)

	Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In April 1992, the MEK conducted near-simultaneous attacks on Iranian embassies and installations in 13 countries, demonstrating the group’s ability to mount large-scale operations overseas.
		In April 1999, the MEK targeted key military officers and assassinated the deputy chief of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff.
		In 2000 and 2001, the MEK was involved regularly in mortar attacks and hit-and-run raids on Iranian military and law enforcement units and Government buildings near the Iran-Iraq border, although MEK terrorism in Iran declined toward the end of 2001.
	library.nps.navy.mil /home/tgp/mek.htm (603 words)

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