TEHRAN — The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Friday wrapped up a massive five-day drill with launch of a dozen cruise and ballistic missiles, and a stark warning to the occupying regime of Israel.
The IRGC fired 16 Emad, Ghadr, Sejjil, Zalzal, Dezful and Zolfaghar missiles across the country’s south. They have a range of 350 to 2000 kilometers which can reach U.S. bases in the region as well as hit Zionist targets in Occupied Palestine.
It said the missiles successfully hit one predetermined target at the same time as 10 drones simultaneously hit their targets too.
The force had displayed and test fired the missiles in the past as part of the Great Prophet 17 drills.
On Thursday, five cruise missiles were fired from Iran’s Shahid Roudaki ocean-going warship for the first time. The medium-range cruise missiles successfully hit their targets.
Major General Muhammad Hussein Baqeri, the chief of staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, said the drill is an answer to the occupying regime of Israel’s recent “massive but pointless threats” to Iran.
Baqeri said, “This was a tiny part of hundreds of missiles that can hit any hostile target simultaneously.”
“This was one of the most successful missile exercises of the Islamic Republic of Iran so far,” he said, warning the occupying regime of Israel against making the slightest mistake.
Otherwise “we will cut off their hands,” Gen. Baqeri said, adding the difference between a real operation and a military exercise is a “change in the angle of launching the missiles”.
“These exercises had a very clear message: a serious, real ... warning to threats by the Zionist regime’s authorities to beware of their mistakes,” IRGC chief General Hussein Salami said.
“We will cut off their hands if they make a wrong move... The distance between actual operations and military exercises is only a change in the angles of launching the missiles,” he added.
During the second day of the drill on Tuesday, Iran launched cruise missiles, too.
The IRGC in the past has said it has cruise missiles with ranges of 1,000 kilometers. It also has missiles that range up to 2,000 kilometers.
IRGC Deputy Chief of Operations and spokesman for the joint drills Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan said the exercise conveyed Iran’s deterrent power to the enemies and carried a message of peace to Iran’s friends and neighboring countries.
The maneuvers were held in the Persian Gulf region, the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the coastal areas of the southern province of Hormuzgan, Bushehr, and Khuzestan. They were part of major military drills Iran holds regularly to improve its combat readiness.
They intended to showcase the maneuverability of solid fuel missiles to bypass enemy defenses and simultaneous strikes and to improve

the combat readiness of the IRGC forces.
On Wednesday, IRGC land forces chief General Muhammad Pakpour said Iran is to mount an anti-missile system on the turrets of T-72M tanks to protect them from attack.
“The system has been tested and will be installed on the tank turrets. It will be able to deflect all types of missiles by jamming their systems,” he said, on the third day of the land and sea military maneuvers.
According to Gen. Pakpour, the tanks’ main gun has a three-kilometer range and precision night-time capabilities.