Iran Navy effectively fights pirates:
Iran's Navy performs effectively in fighting pirates, Fars news agency quoted Mitropoulos as saying in a message to the 19th Conference on the Coordination of Iran's Naval Organizations, which was held in the northern Iranian city of Ramsar on Tuesday.
Iranian warships clashed with pirates in the Gulf of Aden thwarting an attempt to seize three Iranian commercial vessels, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.