TEHRAN – An Iranian naval flotilla, comprised of a homegrown destroyer and a missile-launching vessel, berthed at Russia’s coastal city of Makhachkala, the capital the Republic of Dagestan, on Friday, Tasnim reported.

The naval watercraft had set sail for the Russian port in the Caspian Sea on Tuesday.

Iran’s Damavand destroyer and Darafsh missile-launching vessel were given a salute by a number of Russian military vessels of the Caspian flotilla, including Grad Sviyazhsk, Uglich, and Velikiy Ustug, according to Iran’s Ambassador to Moscow Mahdi Sanaei.

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