A number of Yak training aircraft entered the country and joined the Shahid Babaei Air Base in Isfahan in central Iran . Russia and Iran are both under international sanctions that restrict trade but have over the past year forged strong ties in various sectors including military cooperation .
Iran currently has mostly Russian MiG and Sukhoi fighter jets that date back to the Soviet era as well as some Chinese aircraft including the F. and F. Fars news agency quoted the chief justice of the coastal Hormozgan province Mojtaba Ghahramani as saying the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps navy had confiscated the ship and arrested four people during the operation .
The United States military has in recent weeks beefed up its presence in the Gulf after accusing Iran of seizing or attempting to take ships in the vital waterway . In May the United States said Iran and Russia are expanding their unprecedented defence partnership.
Tehran was seeking to buy attack helicopters radars and Yak aircraft from Russia. Iran has also announced that Tehran was planning to buy more than one million litres of smuggled fuel from the Russian Federation in the past month . Iran said the Guards seized a commercial vessel in July the Guards seize a commercial ship in the Persian Gulf a day after it accused Iranian forces of two similar attempts off the coast of Oman .
In July the U.S. Navy said the Guard seized a similar vessel in the . coast of . Oman . The Guards seized an Iranian vessel in August and said the ship was carrying more than a million gallons of fuel. It was also accused of trying to contain more than an Iranian oil-related incidents.
It had seized an oil-rich oil-blighted oil-tightly-blinted goods. The Iranian government.
