IRGC: We Conducted Military Drills in Hormuz

Local Editor

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps [IRGC] confirmed on Monday that it held a military drill in the Gulf this week with the aim of securing the strategic waterway and deterring potential threats posed by the enemies.

"The exercise was conducted with the aim of controlling and safeguarding the security of the international waterway within the framework of the IRGC's annual calendar exercises program," the force's spokesman Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif said Sunday.

IRGC chief Major General Mohammad Ali Ja'fari expressed satisfaction with the exercise and commended the naval and aerospace units which participated in the drill, Sharif said.

The IRGC chief "emphasized the need to maintain and enhance all-faceted defense readiness in order to secure the strategic waterway of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and to proportionately counter potential threats and adventurism by the enemies."

Last month, the IRGC said it was ready to act after President Hassan Rouhani said that if Washington pressed ahead with its goal of bringing Iranian oil exports down to zero, no oil would pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

“The Americans have claimed they want to completely stop Iran’s oil exports. They don’t understand the meaning of this statement, because it makes no sense for Iranian oil not to be exported, while regional oil exports continue,” he said.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team