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Splash has obtained exclusive satellite images of the ship taken by
Planet Labs 10 days ago, following an investigation by Samir Madani-led
TankerTrackers.com.
Iranian hardware
and intelligence has been assisting the Houthis in Yemen in their targeting of
merchant vessels over the past three months with the Houthis demanding Israel
end its war in Gaza. Around 35 merchant ships have been targeted by drones and missiles,
while one car carrier, the Galaxy
Leader, was hijacked with its crew and remains in Yemeni waters.
Iran’s coming drone
carrier will eventually wreak havoc against commercial vessels in the Arabian
Sea
The ShahidMahdavi started out
as a 3,280 teuboxship, delivered from Hyundai Heavy Industries in the year
2000. It has recently
undergone a conversion at the ISOICO shipyard west of Bandar Abbas, and is now
controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The reconfigured vessel
has added width to its deck and has around 170 m of runway, now able to
accommodate the departure and landing of a very large fleet of fixed-wing
long-range drones.
The semi-official Fars news
agency described the vessel as a “mobile naval city” capable of “ensuring the
security of Iran’s trade lines, as well as the rights of Iranian sailors and
fishermen in the high seas.”
The Fars report noted: “This
range of new defense and combat innovations for the construction of heavy
vessels, in line with the mass development of light vessels, and equipping them
with various arrays can maintain Iran’s authority over the Persian Gulf and the
Gulf of Oman always in the face of transregional enemies”.
Speaking with Splash,
Madani, who has been tracking Iranian vessels closely for the last six years,
said: “We anticipate Iran’s coming drone
carrier will eventually wreak havoc against commercial vessels in the Arabian
Sea, somewhere halfway to India.”
Speaking with the Associated
Press earlier this week, vice admiral Brad Cooper, the head of the
US Navy’s 5th Fleet, in charge of operations in the Middle East, discussed
Iran’s ties with the Houthis.
“What I’ll say is Iran is clearly funding, they’re
resourcing, they are supplying and they’re providing training,” Cooper said. “They’re obviously very directly
involved. There’s no secret there.
