Iran firmly responds to any attack: Military official
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Bandar Abbas, Hormuzgan Prov, April 3, IRNA
Iran-Military-Wargame
Any attack against Iran's interests in the Persian Gulf region would be strongly responded, said a senior military official here Sunday.
The response would be given by surface, under-surface and air defence units and from Iranian islands and coastal regions, said spokesman of the ongoing joint maritime wargame, dubbed as 'The Great Prophet' (PBUH), Rear Admiral Mohammad-Ebrahim Dehqani.
The spokesman said the wargame has made the US and British forces in the region confused so that they have currently put their troops on a state of full alert.
The military exercise started in the Persian Gulf waters on Friday and will continue until April six.
Some 17,000 combatants from naval and air forces of the Islamic Republic Army, Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps (IRGC), police and Basij (voluntary) forces are taking part in the joint wargame in which world's fastest underwater missile was successfully test-fired.
The domestically made weapon, called `Hoot' (Fish in Arabic), hits its target with a maximum speed of 100 meters per second while the maximum speed a missile could (usually) move under water is 25 meters per second, a wargame official had said after the missile test.
"All foreign news channels and networks repeatedly broadcast as breaking news the missile test as well as mining of pre-determined water routes," said the spokesman.
Sending message of peace and amity to the Persian Gulf states is one of the objectives of the wargame, Dehqani said.
According to the official, over 1,500 gunboats along with various kinds of fighters, bombers and choppers are taking part in the wargame in which various defensive operations covering deployment of telecommunications, satellites, electronic systems and reconnaissance patrols are to be conducted against the hypothetical enemy.
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