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IRGC Navy cmdr.: Persian Gulf countries ready to hold joint drills with Iran

Iran Press TV

Saturday, 25 October 2025 9:58 PM

The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy says the Persian Gulf's littoral states have expressed their readiness to hold joint naval exercises with Iran.

"We firmly believe that the regional countries themselves are fully capable of maintaining the security of this strategic waterway, and there is no need for the presence of foreign powers," Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said during a ceremony in the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr on Saturday.

Despite this, he added, adversaries have resorted to "fabricating threats and tensions" in order to try to justify their illegitimate presence in the region and promote their arms sales.

As a case in point concerning regional countries' sufficient capability to guard the region, Tangsiri cited the Iranian Armed Forces, including both the Corps' Navy and the naval forces enlisted with the Islamic Republic's Army's having established "full security" across the waterway.

The commander credited the servicemen with securing the entire region, especially the strategic Strait of Hormuz, "with utmost authority."

"The world owes the continued openness of this vital strait to the blood of the [Iranian] martyrs, who sacrificed their lives to keep it secure."

In January, the commander announced that advanced domestically-built drones operated by the IRGC Navy had successfully deployed AI-enabled precision missiles during a major naval exercise in the Persian Gulf.

Back then, he explained that IRGC specialists had upgraded Mohajer-6 multirole ISTAR and Ababil-5 combat drones with new variants of the Qaem and Almas guided missiles, enhanced with artificial-intelligence features for pinpoint target engagement.

The commander further noted at the time that IRGC naval personnel had also launched a broad array of surface-to-sea and surface-to-surface missiles of various ranges on the second day of the large-scale Payambar-e-A'azam (The Great Prophet) drills - designed to boost the Corps' readiness against any hostile adventurism, while at the same time conveying a message of peace and goodwill to the countries of the region.

Three months later, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen conducted a joint naval parade in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza amid the Israeli regime's war of genocide on the coastal sliver.

The coordinated exercise unfolded on March 27 across the Persian Gulf, the Makran coastal region, and the Caspian Sea, spanning Iran's northern and southern waters.

Commenting on the development at the time, Tangsiri announced that more than 3,000 heavy and light vessels were participating in the large-scale maritime display.