Egypt will allow Iranian military vessels crossing the Suez Canal

Cairo. .- The Ministry of Defence of Egypt has accepted a request from Iran to allow the crossing of two Iranian warships through the Suez Canal. The two vessels, which do not carry nuclear or chemical material, are now in international waters of the Red Sea. Yesterday, a senior Iranian naval commander, quoted unidentified by the website of Iranian state television in English PressTV, stressed that the two frigates which are directed to the Mediterranean Sea, were to cross the Suez Canal, as the authorities Egyptians do not put impediments.

This is the first time since the Iranian revolution (1979) in Egypt allows the transit of Iranian warships through the canal.

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