TEHRAN (Dispatches) – The commander of the Iranian army’s ground forces on Wednesday outlined plans to boost the mobility and assault capabilities of the infantry units.
Speaking at a military gathering here, Brigadier General Kiomars Haydari said the ground forces’ infantry units have undergone structural reforms, noting that all brigades have developed into "assault and mobile” ones.
He said 21 mobile assault brigades have been established in the force as per the orders of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
In a November 2016 decree, the Leader called for efforts to boost the mobility and efficiency of the units proportional to modern needs.
Haydari’s predecessor, Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, had announced before leaving the office that the capabilities of the ground forces had developed in recent years to deal with new threats.
Separately, a senior Iranian cyber security official warned plot by the Zionist regime to carry out cyberattacks against Iran.
The occupying regime appears to have clandestine cyber capabilities and is seeking to harm the Islamic Republic through cyberattacks, Major General Mostafa Izadi, commander of the cyber security and modern threats department at the IRGC’s Khatam al-Anbia Base, said.
He made the comments during a visit to Iran’s Civil Defense Organization.
The general further stressed the need for efforts to thwart the enemy plots that aim to create discord within the Iranian nation, which he described as the main pillar of the Establishment.
Last year, Iran’s Civil Defense Organization unveiled plans for developing a nationwide alarm system that would alert the country’s organizations to possible cyberattacks.
It came after a spate of cyberattacks against Iranian websites in June 2016.