In syria shoulder-to-shoulder fighting Iran and Russia are planning a joint naval exercise in the caspian sea, the iranian news agency Mehr tell.Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif (left) and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met in Geneva in mid-December. ZUMAWIRE / MVPHOTOS

– Iran and Russia are preparing a naval military exercise, which will be implemented in the near future, the Iranian army rear admiral Hossein Khanzad said mehrin to Reuters.

this Exercise focuses on the khanzad in the words, tactics, rescue training, and combating piracy.

Countries are close military cooperation and they have been practicing in the caspian sea in the past, Reuters, inter alia, in 2015 and 2017. In syria both support the president Bashar al-Assad troops.

the caspian sea is the world’s largest inland body of water. It’s bordered by Russia and Iran in addition to former soviet states Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. Countries reached last summer, an agreement on a water station and decided to treat it the law technically, the ocean and lakes.