IRIS Khanjar (P230)

IRIS Khanjar is a Kaman-class fast attack craft in the Southern Fleet of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy.

Construction and commissioning
Neyzeh was built by French Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie at Cherbourg, as one of the second six contracted on 14 October 1974. Her keel was laid down on 17 January 1977 and on 27 April 1978, she was launched. Together with IRIS Neyzeh and IRIS Tabarzin, Khanjar was delivered in c. 1980, but remained at the shipyard due to an embargo in effect by the French government. France decided to release the three, and all were commissioned into the fleet on 1 August 1981.

Service history
In 2014, Khanjar and IRIS Neyzeh participated in a joint naval drill with Pakistan Navy in the Gulf of Oman. On 7 September 2016, she was dispatched –as part of the 43rd flotilla, along with her sister IRIS Falakhon, amphibious vessel IRIS Lavan and support ship IRIS Konarak– to secure international waters sailed by Iranian commercial ships, and on 28 September, she arrived in Karachi, Pakistan for a three-day port visit. She made another call to the same port on 10 October 2018, this time with IRIS Neyzeh and IRIS Bushehr, while deployed for an anti-piracy mission to the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden. The ship was modernized in 2017–2021.