TEHRAN – The Iranian Navy on Tuesday dispatched a flotilla of warships to Russia's Makhachkala, the capital of the Republic of Dagestan.

The Iranian fleet, which includes the home-made Damavand destroyer and Darafsh missile-launching warship, left Iran's territorial waters in the Caspian Sea with a message of peace and friendship to the Caspian Sea littoral states, Fars reported.

The Iranian Navy's Northern Fleet had earlier sent two flotillas of warships to Russia and one to Azerbaijan.

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