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Iran, like most countries, does not a blue water navy with assets in the Mediterranean sea to perform realtime surveillance.
rtkwe | parent
They had a handful of frigates mostly but those could go out as far as the Med pretty easily. One of their ships was sunk near Sri Lanka.
signatoremo | root | parent
It was sunk there because it attended an on-off event in India before that. Iran's ships don't get on regular trips far from home.
rtkwe | root | parent
They don't but it shows they could.
awesome_dude | root | parent
I mean, a personal yacht can sail around the world, that's not really demonstrating whether the vessel is useful in combat operations anywhere in the world.