Iran’s Army Begins Massive Military Drill From The Strait Of Hormuz To The Gulf Of Aden
By Staff writer, Al Arabiya News
Thursday, 25 December 2014
Iran launched extensive military drills on Thursday, in a show of strength stretching several hundred kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Aden, state TV reported.
Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, chief of the Army’s ground forces, told state television on Thursday that the maneuvers are aimed at “transferring experiences” to younger generations of the Iranian soldiers.
The weeklong exercise will be carried out over 850,000 square miles in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, Sea of Oman and the eastern part of the passage, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes, according to the report.
The initial part of the drill includes exercises by ground units in southeast Iran on Thursday and Friday. But the exercises are set to last six days and involve ballistic missile and drone testing, according to military officials.
Close to 13,000 personnel will take part in the drills, which will be the first time Iran has organized military maneuvers so far from its coastline, Agence France-Presse reported.
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