FARS website describes them as
"The Navy's 18th flotilla is comprised of Kharg warship and Shahid Naqdi destroyer."
Other sources say its the Kharg plus the frigate Alvand
The Kharg is a 1977 British built equivalent to an RFA - and the Israelis seem to think she's stuffed full of missile for Hizbollah. Of course it may just be carrying guns for the Syrians.....
First you have the Russian making an arms run into Syria, guarded by - among other things - their only carrier, now you have another supply run from Iran into Syria
Who -or what - is next?
Fars News Agency :: Iranian Fleet of Warships Enter Mediterranean Sea
https://warsclerotic.wordpress.com/2...ings-missiles/
heres a quote from that second link
"debkafile‘s military sources report that Iran is rapidly seizing the fall of the Mubarak regime in Cairo and the Saudi King Abdullah’s falling-out with President Barack Obama (
see debkafile of Feb. 10, 2011) as an opportunity not to be missed for establishing a foothold along the Suez Canal and access to the Mediterranean for six gains:
1. To cut off, even partially, the US military and naval Persian Gulf forces from their main route for supplies and reinforcements;
2. To establish an Iranian military-naval grip on the Suez Canal, through which 40 percent of the world’s maritime freights pass every day:
3. To bring an Iranian military presence close enough to menace the Egyptian heartland of Cairo and the Nile Delta and squeeze it into joining the radical Iranian-Syrian-Iraqi-Turkish alliance;
4. To thread a contiguous Iranian military-naval line from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea through the Suez Canal and the Gaza Strip and up to the ports of Lebanon, where Hizballah has already seized power and toppled the pro-West government.
5. To eventually sever the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, annex it to the Gaza Strip and establish a large Hamas-ruled Palestinian state athwart the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea.
By comparison, a Fatah-led Palestinian state on the West Bank within the American orbit be politically and strategically inferior.
6. To tighten the naval and military siege on Israel."