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Army's Ground Force launches 3-day drill in northwest Iran

Sunday, 23 October 2022 11:25 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 23 October 2022 12:38 PM ]

The photo by IRNA news agency shows the Iranian Army's Ground Force servicemen in a military drill in West Azerbaijan Province on October 22, 2022.

The Iranian Army's Ground Force has launched a large-scale three-day military drill with the participation of combat forces in a border area in the country’s West Azarbaijan Province.

Colonel Hamid Firuzjaei, the commander of the 164th Mobile Assault Battalion of the Army’s Ground Forces, said the three-day exercise, codenamed ‘Battalion’s Role Model’, kicked off in Pasveh District in Piranshahr County on Saturday in order to evaluate the combat power of the forces and to display their military capabilities.

“The forces partaking in the exercise use organizational, light, semi-heavy and heavy weapons in line with the goals of the exercise and demonstrate their combat and defense capabilities,” Firuzjaei was quoted by Iran's official IRNA news agency as saying.

The commander of the 164th Mobile Assault Battalion stressed that the forces carry out heliborne parachute operations, overnight raids, helicopter combat, control of communication roads, capture of heights and offensive destruction and urban warfare during the drill in Piranshahr.

Last month, the Iranian Army's Ground Force staged a two-day-long set of military drills in the city of Nasr Abad in central Iran, which were aimed at measuring its strength in the face of "new threats."

Iran Army's Ground Force to measure strength in face of 'new threats'

The Iranian Army

The drills were participated by various units that hail from the Army's infantry, armored, artillery, Army Aviation, drone, engineering, airborne, and electronic warfare divisions.

The large-scale exercise came after Iran's Defense Ministry said it had equipped 51 cities across the country with civil defense systems to monitor and thwart any threats at the shortest possible time.

Based on its military doctrine, the Islamic Republic asserts that it would never be the party to initiate a conflict.

The military, however, has said on numerous occasions that it would deal any potential aggressor a far greater blow than the latter could have sought to afflict on the country.

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