IRGC starts three-day military drills

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has embarked on large-scale security drills in the country’s southeast, Press TV reports.

The maneuvers, codenamed The Great Prophet (PBUH), started out in Sistan-and-Baluchestan Province on Tuesday. The area covered by the drills was being monitored by 10 reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles.

Commander of the IRGC’s Ground Forces, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, said that the three-day drills would also cover the provinces of Kerman, South Khorasan, and Hormozgan.

He added that maintaining the preparedness of the IRGC forces, displaying the Iranian Armed Forces’ might, improving the security of the region, and implementing certain tactics are among the objectives of the maneuvers.