Iran’s Vahidi: ‘Navy, highly capable of providing national security’

Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said in Tehran on Thursday Iranian Navy was highly capable of providing national security and defend its territorial waters.

Speaking to IRNA on the sidelines of a local ceremony in Tehran, the minister said experts of Iran’s defense industries would spare no efforts to meet the needs of the country’s armed forces to secure íts territorial integrity.
Referring to the joining of two hovercrafts and two Ghadir-class submarines to Iran’s Navy on Wednesday, the minister said the Iranian experts have succeeded to design, produce and repair advanced military equipment.
Vahidi added the two hovercraft and the submarines were examples of the endeavor of the domestic experts which were delivered to the Navy in the presence of Navy Commander Rear-Admiral Habibollah Sayyari.