Defense Min elaborated on IRI Defense Doctrine, Iran’s defensive achievements
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Aug 25, IRNA -- Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistical Affairs here Wednesday elaborated on IRI Defense Doctrine and country’s latest defensive achievements in an interview with Office to Safeguard and Publish Grand Ayatollah Khameneie’s Works.
According to IRNA, the information website of the Office to Safeguard and Publish Grand Ayatollah Khameneie’s Works in a report on Brigadier Ahmad Vahidi’s interview on those respects wrote, “The Islamic Republic of Iran has throughout its life achieved great and eye catching objectives in its defense industries, despite the constantly imposed sanctions and threats of the global oppression system.
“This has not only led to blossoming of our indigenous capabilities, but also granted broad deterrent capability to our country. In order to survey the matter, we have interviewed the country’s Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistical Affairs IRGC Brigadier Ahmad Vahidi.”
Below are excerpts of that interview, whose full text is on the website of the Office to Safeguard and Publish Grand Ayatollah Khameneie’s Works for interested individuals:
*The importance of defense industries;
The military power and providing the required facilities for that power are prerequisites for safeguarding the independence, security and development of any country… This is a deterrent factor against the enemy’s greed and expansionist tendencies that might lead to their aggressive moves.
Therefore, the defense industries are among the main indexes for national might.
Before the revolution the defense model of Iran was based on balance of power between the west and the east. Iran was an agent of the west and a defensive wall against the expansionist tendencies of the east. Therefore, the defense industries, too, were dependent on the west and mainly comprised of assembly lines… There were American military advisors who commissioned US designers to program those industries. According to statistics there were 40 thousand American military advisors in Iran and they had planned to increase their number to 80 thousand by 1981.
The victory of the Islamic Revolution practically severed the support for those facilities and the country was put under the sanctions conditions. Severing of ties with the west made the creative and independent defense industry engineers, influenced by the bright message of the late Imam Khomeini (P), who had encouraged the armed forces to achieve self sufficiency, and to boost self confidence, the miracle of that mentality emerged during the eight years of defense against the invading Iraqi aggressors and the sacred defense…
Today we have 139 active defense industries in the country, feeding 700 related private sector industries. We produce over 1,100 military and non-military products as a result of those activities, in addition to over 4,000 parts related to the aviation industries…
Over 15,000 researchers, technicians and other defense industry personnel are working in those industries, and above all, we have achieved over 270 indigenous technologies in the field.
* What is the main factor leading to recent advancements, emphasized by the Supreme Leader?
The Supreme Leader devised the roadmap for achieving innovative achievements in defense industries, emphasizing on the need for initiation and taking shortcuts…
Thanks to those guidelines, we have employed some 5,000 researchers, and some 10,000 other technicians in other related private sector industries and various organs, defined and put to use 900 projects and achieved some 200 technologies…
We have also achieved 33 innovative technologies, which are mainly in the hi-tech field in missile, weapons and munitions, armored vehicles, and tactical facilities… even in such fields as physics, electronics, air industries, telecommunications, navigation, and software production…
The Islamic Republic of Iran is thus enjoying reputable defense statuses in the world and the top one in the region…
In the field of launching satellites to the earth orbit these industries have passed the test by launching the Omid and Tolou’a satellites and the production of the Safir and Simorq satellite carries.
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