IRGC Navy Commander: Iran at helm of events in Persian Gulf
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Bushehr, March 1, IRNA -- According to the IRNA reporter in Bushehr, the Public Relations of District Two of Islamic Republic Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy further quoted Sardar Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi at a ceremony on the occasion of missile thrower small warships’ joining to the IRGC naval fleet, “Under current conditions if the Americans would be intending to shoot, their economic field and military forces would suffer dearly.”
He reiterated, “The conditions and requirements for initiating a war against Iran would never be provided for the Americans, therefore, the losses of beginning a war for them would be greater than its benefits.”
Fadavi said, “Even in economic the field, where they have assumed Iran is in a bad situation and they can inflict the greatest losses against our system there, they can achieve no tangible result.”
Elsewhere in his address Rear Admiral Fadavi emphasized, “The Revolutionary Guard Pasdars of the Islamic Revolution always consider themselves indebted to the revolution, which is why for safeguarding the revolution they dedicate their lives without hesitation.”
The IRGC Naval Force commander argued, “The martyrs left as inheritance a might for us relying on which we feel no fear of any enemy.”
Iranian officials have repeatedly warned the trans-regional states, specially the US, to pull their troops and warships out of the Persian Gulf.
In January, a senior Iranian military commander underlined that the Iranian Navy's subsurface vessels enjoy a high capability to confront enemies' threats, and stated that Iran's submarines are able to ambush and hit enemy vessels specially US Aircraft carriers from the seabed throughout the Persian Gulf.
Speaking to the Fars News Agency (FNA), Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army's Self-Sufficiency Jihad Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri added that Iran has the best electronic diesel submarines of the world, adding that the enemies, the US in particular, are most focused on Iran's astonishing subsurface capabilities.
Amiri underlined that the significance of submarines is not just indebted to their arms and equipment, 'rather the tactical issues are very important', given the geographical specifications of the waters surrounding the county.
'For example,' he stated, 'if an ordinary submarine can sit in the Persian Gulf's bed it would be the worst threat for the enemy.'
'That is one of the US concerns since the Iranian submarines are noiseless and can easily evade detection as they are equipped with the sonar-evading technology' and can fire missiles and torpedoes simultaneously, he added.
'When the submarine sits on the seabed it can easily target and hit an aircraft carrier traversing in the nearby regions,' Amiri reiterated.
Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could be used in suicide attacks, but the US Navy can prevent it from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of US naval forces in the region said on Sunday.
Iran has made a series of threats in recent weeks to disrupt shipping in the Persian Gulf or strike US forces in retaliation if its oil trade is shut down by sanctions, or if its peaceful nuclear program comes under attack.
'They have increased the number of submarines ... they increased the number of fast attack craft,' Vice Admiral Mark Fox told reporters. 'Some of the small boats have been outfitted with a large warhead that could be used as a suicide explosive device. The Iranians have a large mine inventory.'
'We have watched with interest their development of long range rockets and short, medium and long range ballistic missiles and of course ... the development of their nuclear program,' Fox, who heads the US Fifth Fleet, said at a briefing on the fleet's base in the Gulf state of Bahrain.
Iran now has 10 small submarines, he said.
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