{"id":19501,"date":"2025-01-21T22:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iran-set-to-join-pakistans-aman-25-naval-drills\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T22:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:16:21","slug":"iran-set-to-join-pakistans-aman-25-naval-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-set-to-join-pakistans-aman-25-naval-drills\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran set to join Pakistan&#039;s AMAN-25 naval drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5342300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iran&#8217;s Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, has confirmed the nation&#8217;s participation in the upcoming AMAN-25 naval exercises, scheduled for February 7-11 in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Bagheri made the announcement during his visit to Islamabad, where he held discussions with high-ranking Pakistani officials, including the army chief, air force commander, defense minister, prime minister, and president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The biennial AMAN exercises, organized by the Pakistan Navy, aim to strengthen maritime security through international collaboration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Key focuses include countering terrorism, preventing piracy, and executing search and rescue missions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The drills will feature various naval operations, such as live-fire exercises, communication drills, and humanitarian assistance efforts, designed to enhance the capabilities of the attending forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">These exercises offer a venue for naval forces to share tactics and strategies, boosting interoperability among participants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">So far, confirmed participants in AMAN-25 include Iran, the U.S., China, Russia, the U.K., Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, showcasing a blend of regional and global naval powers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Iran&#8217;s engagement in AMAN-25 follows a series of diplomatic and military interactions with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">General Bagheri&#8217;s recent visit to Islamabad was his third to the South Asian nation, following previous trips in 2018 and 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The expanding framework of military cooperation between the two countries is to a large extent fueled by mutual security concerns along the Iran-Pakistan border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">In 2023, the two nations conducted a joint border security exercise to combat terrorism and drug trafficking. This partnership was further cemented with a security cooperation agreement in April 2024, which included the deployment of high-ranking officers in border regions to enhance counterterrorism efforts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/508928\/Iran-set-to-join-Pakistan-s-AMAN-25-naval-drills\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iran&#8217;s Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, has confirmed the nation&#8217;s participation in the upcoming AMAN-25 naval exercises, scheduled for February 7-11 in Karachi. Bagheri made the announcement during his visit to Islamabad, where he held discussions with high-ranking Pakistani officials, including the army chief, air force commander, defense minister, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,99,1762,13],"class_list":["post-19501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-iran","tag-iranian-navy","tag-major-general-mohammad-bagheri","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}