{"id":4299,"date":"2026-02-17T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:58:25","slug":"iran-russia-china-to-conduct-joint-naval-exercise-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/iran-russia-china-to-conduct-joint-naval-exercise-in-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Russia, China to conduct joint naval exercise in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced that Iran, Russia, and China have deployed vessels for a joint naval exercise scheduled to take place soon in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tehran &#8211; IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with a local media outlet, the Russian official described the exercise as part of a coordinated plan between Moscow, Tehran and Beijing. In remarks to the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, Patrushev said the three countries would participate in the 2026 \u201cMaritime Security Belt\u201d drills in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Some Iranian domestic media had previously reported that Iran, Russia and China would hold their eighth joint naval exercise under the title \u201cSecurity Belt\u201d in late February.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMaritime Security Belt\u201d naval exercises have been conducted since 2019 at the initiative of the Iranian Navy.<\/p>\n<p>The stated objectives include strengthening the security of global maritime trade, carrying out joint anti-piracy and counter-maritime terrorism measures, and conducting search-and-rescue operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced that Iran, Russia, and China have deployed vessels for a joint naval exercise scheduled to take place soon in the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran &#8211; IranView24 Speaking in an interview with a local media outlet, the Russian official described the exercise as part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":4300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,52,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-russia","category-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}