The captain of an Iranian aid ship heading for Yemen expects to enter the Bab al-Mandeb strait linking the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea Thursday morning, state news agency IRNA reported. "If the weather and the ship's technical conditions persist ... we will enter the Bab al-Mandeb strait tomorrow morning," the Iran Shahed's captain Massoud Ghazi Mirsaid was quoted as saying by IRNA Wednesday. The Iran Shahed, carrying aid and foreign activists, is heading to Yemen's western port of Hodaida. Reuters ship tracking data showed it positioned south of Aden at 8:48 a.m. GMT Wednesday.