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According to Iran’s Deputy Military Chief for Coordination Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari all necessary preparations have been completed and the joint military exercise, called Zolfaqar-1400, will start on Sunday as quoted by local media, Tasnim.
The drills are said to cover the Army, Navy, Air Force and Air Defense, covering an area of more than one million square kilometers southeast of Iran, stretching from the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz to the northern part of the Indian Ocean, up to a latitude of 10 degrees, and part of it. Red Sea.
“The exercise also shows that various homemade equipment and ammunition, including advanced reconnaissance and combat drones with various ranges are expected to be used in the exercises,” Sayyari said.
“It will serve as a warning to the enemy that any act of aggression against Iran will attract a crushing response from Tehran,” he added Sputnik, Sunday (7/11/2021).
The upcoming exercise is said to facilitate Iran’s military readiness and defense capacity in protecting the country’s territorial integrity.
The announcement came after Iranian media reported on November 3 that the Iranian Navy had foiled a US attack on one of its oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The US military reportedly used several helicopter gunships and warships in the attack. According to reports, they stopped the Iranian tanker and the crew of the US vessel started transferring oil to its own tankers. In Tehran, it was described as an attempt to “steal Iranian oil.”
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On the same day, a video was released depicting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces preventing the US military from intercepting the cargo of the Iranian tanker.
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