Commander Underscores Iranian Armed Forces’ Preparedness to Fight Threats

Iranian Ground Force Commander Lieutenant General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan underlined that the country’s Armed Forces are fully prepared to confront any aggressor and threat.
“Today, our country is facing asymmetric threats and to confront them we need skillful and faithful commandos,” Pourdastan told FNA after meeting the Iranian Army forces participating in the military drills underway in Southern Iran on Thursday.

“Today the unit (of commandos) is supplied with its needed weapons and we are capable of confronting any threat by them,” he added.

Different units of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Navy, Air Force and Air Defense started six days of massive joint military drills in the Southern and Southeastern parts of the country on Thursday.

The military exercises codenamed Mohammad Rasoulallah (PBUH) will cover an area of 2.2 million square kilometers from the East of the Strait of Hormuz to the Southern parts of the Gulf of Aden.

In relevant remarks today, Pourdastan announced that the country’s home-made high-precision missile, ‘Toufan (Hurricane)’, will be fired by the Army forces during the current military drills.

“The high-precision Toufan missile with a range of 4km can both be used as a land-based missile and be fired from helicopters during the wargames,” Pourdastan told FNA.

He also said that Shaher sniper rifle, the Moharram six-barrel cannon and mine-shedding systems are among the other weapons and equipment to be used in the wargames.

Pourdastan elaborated on the drones used by the Iranian Ground Forces in the drills, and said a new type of these drones can be used for suicide attacks against air or ground targets.