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Beit-ol-Moqaddas-28 drills convey message of peace to region: Comdr

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Kashan, Isfahan prov., May 22, IRNA -- Commander of the Ground Force of the Iranian Army Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan said in this central province on Sunday that Beit-oul-Moqaddas-28 military drills convey a message of peace and friendship for the regional countries.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the two-day military exercise, Pourdastan said enemies and bullying powers should notice that the 'Ground Force of the Iranian Army is completely prepared' to defend the country.

'The Beit-ol-Moqaddas-28 military drills aimed at enhancing defensive capabilities, training techniques in asymmetric war and test-firing improved weapons of the Iranian Army,' Pourdastan underscored.

He added that Army's improved rockets would be tested during the military exercise, codenamed 'Ya Saheb Az-Zaman.'

The drills began in Kashan's Maranjab Desert and Isfahan's Nasrabad region in this central province

Units of Army's Ground Force demonstrate their strength during the two-day military drills using their latest weapons, defensive and missile tactics.

Improved versions of the indigenous 'Nazeat' and 'Fajr-5' missiles would hit their hypothetical targets during the first stage of the drills which are being held on the eve of the anniversary of the liberation of the strategic southwestern city of Khorramshahr on May 24, 1982 (Khordad 3rd in the Iranian calendar).

Occupied by Iraqi troops in the early days of the eigh-years of Iraq's imposed war against Iran (1980-1988), Khorramshahr was finally liberated on May 24, 1982, after two days of heavy fighting and sacrificies made by the Iranian forces.

Iran has made major breakthroughs in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing important military equipment and systems in recent years.

The Islamic Republic maintains that its military might poses no threat to other countries and that its defense doctrine is merely based on deterrence.

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