Earlier in the summer a spate of alarmist news reports suggested a pair of Iranian warships which had recently rounded Africa's Cape of Good Hope were bound to cross the Atlantic toward Venezuela. After prior US attempts to thwart Iranian-Venezuelan cooperation, which included instances of the US seizing fuel bound for the Maduro government, the questioned remained whether the Biden administration would act.
However, the ships' projected destination proved to be entirely unfounded, especially as they within past weeks made their way north up Africa's west coast. An alarmed Danish military has now posted photos of the two Iranian vessels currently traversing the Baltic Sea, headed toward Russia.
One of the ships is Iran's largest military vessel, the IRINS Makran, at 228-meters (748-foot) long, considered a "floating military base" - which was domestically produced after being converted from a oil tanker - and is capable of carrying helicopters, small submarines, and launching missiles.
It is being escorted by the new Iranian destroyer Sahand, and both were photographed by the Royal Danish Air Force cruising near the Danish island of Bornholm, which lies just south of Sweden and northeast of Germany.
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