Four Exhibitions to Showcase Military Achievements

Date: 26 January 2019 - 21:47

News ID: ۶۲۵۱۸

TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Iran will showcase its latest military achievements at four exhibitions held to mark the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolutionary next month, armed forces General Abolfazl Shekarchi said on Saturday.
The first exhibition starting in Tehran Thursday will display Iran’s military power, while three other exhibitions will compare the country’s current defense capabilities with those before the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
On Saturday, the infantry forces of Iran’s Army held their final day of massive military drills the central Isfahan province with the aim of practicing ways of confronting any ground incursion and infiltration by terrorists.
The exercises marked hitting the enemy’s positions with smart and precise shells with a range of 10 to 30 kilometers.
Around 12,000 elite troops, armored vehicles, fighter jets and drones took part in the two-day exercises.
"In these war-games we will showcase two important developments: a special-forces rapid deployment battalion and a highly mobile offensive armored battalion,” General Kioumars Heydari, head of the regular army’s ground forces, told national television.
Heydari said the drills would delight Iran’s friends and show any aggressors that they would face a "rapid and crushing blow” by the Iranian army, the state news agency IRNA reported.
Gen. Nozar Nemati said the two-day exercise unfolded over a 190-square mile (500-square kilometer) area in the central Isfahan province where the ground forces practiced new offensive tactics.
Iran holds military exercises several times a year to demonstrate its readiness to respond to any foreign aggression.
In recent years, Iran has made major advances in its defense industry and attained self-sufficiency in producing important military equipment.
The Islamic Republic maintains that its military might poses no threat to other countries, stating that its defense doctrine is merely based on deterrence.
The country is facing fresh hostility from the West over its defense capabilities, including missiles.
Iranian officials have stressed that the country’s missile capabilities will never be the subject of negotiations under any circumstances.