Meloni: “Hormuz must reopen without tolls and restrictions”. Here are the ships of Italy

“Italy is ready to do its part to contribute, as soon as the conditions are right, to the safety of navigation” in the Strait of Hormuz, “in the wake of what has already been done in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean with the Aspides and Atalanta missions”, added the Prime Minister.

“We must ensure that Iran cannot acquire a nuclear weapon and ceases to be a threat to neighboring nations, and beyond. The Iranian regime’s attacks, which have even hit Cyprus and therefore Europe, demonstrate that an Iran equipped with a nuclear weapon, combined with a long-range missile capability, is a risk that none of us can afford to take”, he said again.

The two Italian minesweepers traveling towards Gibbuti

The sister ships Rimini and Crotone, the two Italian minehunters that left late yesterday afternoon from the Sicilian port of Augusta towards Djibouti and ready to intervene as part of a multinational mission to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz, are units capable of detecting any object on the seabed up to a depth of approximately 600 meters and are specially designed for the localization and deactivation/destruction of naval mines.

One is also used for the search for ship or plane wrecks, finds of historical interest but also for the preservation of the marine ecosystem, the other contributed to the establishment of the humanitarian corridor in favor of the Albanian population.