IRGC Navy: Persian Gulf drills conducted in ‘wargame’ style

The Navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the IRGC’s ongoing drills simulate actual warzone engagement with real enemy forces and are meant to send across a message of warning to those potentially seeking to undermine the country’s security.

“These maneuvers have taken shape based on [the notion of] wargame and the strategies that we employ in the Persian Gulf and the country’s [general] southern expanse,” IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said on Wednesday.

According to Press TV, he added “The maneuvers drill the manner of establishing security in the Persian Gulf and confronting those [potentially] disturbing this security,” .

Although, the exercise does not carry any warning message to our friendly and neighboring countries, “it serves as a warning for those, who could seek to disrupt our security,” the commander said.

Not only would not the Corps allow the Islamic Republic’s enemies to perpetrate any “act of misuse” in the waters, but also it would not tolerate any such measure against any spot of the country’s expanse, he asserted.

Tangsiri was speaking on the sidelines of large-scale drills by the Corps, codenamed Payambar-e A’zam (The Great Prophet) 14, that has enlisted both the elite force’s Navy and its Aerospace Division.

During the maneuvers that spanned the general area of Hormozgan Province, west of the strategic Hormuz Strait, and the Persian Gulf, the Corps staged “all-out and multi-layer” strikes against the life-size replica of a Nimitz-class US aircraft carrier.

The IRGC’s servicemen began the episode by destroying the mock carrier’s accompaniment with coast-to-sea fire. State television aired footage showing the damage caused to the mock aircraft carrier following the operational juncture, and the IRGC commandos’ rappelling onto the vessel.

In an unprecedented move, the IRGC also fired ballistic missiles from underground launch facilities during the drills.

The drills have been monitored by Iran’s first military satellite Nour (Light)-1 that was launched by the Corps into orbit in April. Simultaneously, the satellite relayed a high-resolution vivid image of the al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar that is reportedly the largest United States’ base in West Asia.

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