Islamic Republic of Iran Navy

Type	Naval force
Country/region	Iran
Archived items	48
As of	2026-08-25

Islamic Republic of Iran Navy as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name it. Nothing here is written by a model. The Overview is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

Situation as of 2026-08-25

Most recent archived item: Dutch Navy to equip fleet with Destinus C-UAS interceptor drones - reported by Defense News

Most recent archived item: Defense News

This page lists 12 archived headlines published between 2026-02-28 and 2026-08-25. It reflects what these feeds reported in that window, not everything that happened.

Overview

Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

Overview

The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN; Persian: نیروی دریایی ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران, romanized: Nirū-yē Dəryâyi-yē Ərtēš-ē Žomhūri-yē Ēslâmi-yē Irân, abbreviated NEDAJA; Persian: نداجا), also referred to as the Iranian Navy or the Artesh, is the naval warfare branch of Iran's regular Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, formed after the 1979 revolution, also has a Navy. NEDAJA is charged with forming Iran's first line of defense in the Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf and abroad. It is generally considered to be a conventional green-water navy, as it mostly operates regionally, namely in the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and northwest quarter of the Indian Ocean. The Navy aims to develop blue-water capabilities: in July 2016, it announced plans to establish a presence in the Atlantic Ocean, and as of May 2021 had sent ships into the region. NEDAJA shares many functions and responsibilities with the IRGC Navy, with distinctions in military strategy and equipment: In contrast to the IRGC Navy, which is equipped with small fast-attack craft, the backbone of the Artesh naval inventory consists of larger surface ships, including frigates and corvettes, and submarines. The Artesh Navy had a large fleet prior to 2026, and was ranked highly among the world's top fleets, and was described in 2012 as maintaining "robust" capabilities by regional standards. As of 2019, the Navy had several joint exercises with Russia and China called the Marine Security Belt, which it aims to conduct annually. [1]

Reporting

The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

Other archived reporting

[2] 2026-08-25 - Defense News: Dutch Navy to equip fleet with Destinus C-UAS interceptor drones
[3] 2026-08-25 (ingested; no publication date recorded) - Al-Monitor: Iran vows to retaliate after US widens sanctions
[4] 2026-08-25 - gCaptain: Commodity Vessel Transits Through Strait of Hormuz Hit Three-Month Low, Data Shows
[5] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Ceasefire monitoring mission arrives in Democratic Republic of Congo
[6] 2026-08-21 - mfa.gov.tr: Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of Türkiye , Algeria , Indonesia , Jordan , Lebanon , Malaysia , Mauritania , Pakistan , Palestine , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and Somalia , 21 August 2026 / Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs
[7] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
[8] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: IDF Opened Dozens of Probes Into Deaths of Detained Gazans. No One Was Charged
[9] 2026-07-15 - outlet not recorded: Opinion: The Erasure of Jewish Suffering
[10] 2026-07-10 - outlet not recorded: Explainer-What is Islamic State, the group linked to this week's Damascus bombs? - Al-Monitor
[11] 2026-07-06 - outlet not recorded: Syria’s New Parliament: Networks of War, Politics of Appointment, and the Illusion of Representation
[12] 2026-06-29 - outlet not recorded: Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad ties prompt CPJ review of Gaza journalist death database
[13] 2026-06-11 - outlet not recorded: Syrian Arab Republic: Humanitarian Snapshot | Quneitra Governorate and Adjacent Areas of Dar’a and Rural Damascus (June 2026) [EN/AR]
...and 36 more not listed here.

See also: Iran

Publication history

What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

Sources

Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

How this page is made

Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Overview is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Overview source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).