National-Regional SAR & Oil Pollution Response Exercise, Bandar Anzali

Iran media imagery of National-Regional Search and Rescue & Oil Pollution Response Exercise, effected 16JUN15 off Bandar Anzali in the Caspian Sea. Participating in the exercise were thirty vessels, four helicopters and a task force numbering 150 personnel.

Fire-fighting operation conducted by Masooleh tug (MMSI 422621000) and Yas Air Mil Mi-171, serial 15-1230

Fire-fighting operation involving Shahid Asade tug (IMO 7368152)

Iran Coast Guard NAJI 14 (MMSI 422319000) high speed light craft patrol type (constructed at Norway's Båtservice Mandal AS, 2005).

Masooleh tug (MMSI 422621000) and unidentified sister craft 

Yas Air Mil Mi-171, serial 15-1230 operating helicopter bucket for fire-fighting operation. Nardis cargo ship (IMO 9137246), seen at left.

IRIN Aviation Agusta AB-212ASW, serial 6-2402 (cn 5510) simulating helicopter SAR operation

IRIN Aviation Agusta AB-212ASW, serial 6-2415 (cn 5544) with Nardis cargo ship

Yasin trailing suction hopper dredger (IMO 9312951), operating as oil pollution response vessel

Valasht tug (IMO 9437749) engaged in simulated pollution recovery by skimmer

Bandar Anzali port facilities and administration building

ELA 07 autogyro, in operation above the Caspian Sea

Photos: Islamic Republic News Agency, and Morteza Rafikhah at Fars News Agency

Iran Coast Guard turns back second attempted flotilla to Bahrain

According to the LA Times:

Iranian supporters of Shiite dissidents in Bahrain saw their second flotilla in less than a month turned back from the Persian Gulf kingdom Monday.

The 120 people aboard the two-ship "flotilla of solidarity" included a mix of workers, athletes, lawmakers, physicians and nurses, according to the semi-official Iranian Mehr News Agency. They had left the Iranian port of Bushehr, traveled a dozen nautical miles and were approaching international waters when they were forced to return to port by the Iranian coast guard, according to Mehr News.

There was speculation that the ships, including one named Ayat al-Ghermezi after the late Bahraini dissident poet allegedly raped and murdered by security forces, were barred from entering Bahraini waters after being intercepted by Gulf warships.

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The Ayat al-Ghermezi of the "flotilla of solidarity"

File frame capture: Iran Coast Guard PBI type coastal patrol craft (PBM)

Photo: Mehr News Agency
Video frame: Agaahi at YouTube