It "sailed"? Are they trying to paint a picture of an Iranian Skiff (made of paper) or perhaps an Iranian "ship of the line"?
Probably just an Iranian Ketch.
It SAILED. Even on the town-sized ship I served on never “Motored” or “Oared” or “Rowed” across the Pacific.
The ship picked up its mooring lines and off we SAILED. IG really has come to mean, crossing a body of water, no matter what the power source is.
Even submarines “sail”. Go figure.