March 15, 2019
The Iranian Navy reports that it has foiled yet another Somali pirate attack on an Iranian oil tanker, which Iran did not name, in the Gulf of Aden. Such successes are reported routinely by the Iranian Navy but considered false internationally. The last such claim that the Iran Times can find that was accepted internationally was a Somali pirate seizure in February 2012 of a freighter carrying sugar from Brazil to Iran. Iranian Navy commandoes stormed the ship five days later and seized it.