Published January 11,2025
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Iran was holding air defence workouts on Saturday, state media reported, because the nation braces for extra friction with arch-enemy Israel and the United States below incoming U.S. president Donald Trump.
The struggle video games happen as Iranian leaders face the chance that Trump might empower Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to assault Iran’s nuclear websites, whereas additional tightening U.S. sanctions on its oil trade by his “maximum pressure” coverage.
“In these exercises,…defence systems will practice the fight against air, missile and electronic warfare threats in real battlefield conditions… to protect the country’s skies and sensitive and vital areas,” Iranian state tv stated.
Saturday’s drills are a part of two-months-long workouts launched on Jan. 4 which have already included struggle video games through which the elite Revolutionary Guards defended key nuclear installations in Natanz towards mock assaults by missiles and drones, state media stated.
Iran’s navy has stated it was utilizing new drones and missiles within the workouts and launched footage of a brand new underground “missile city” being visited by Guards Commander-in-Chief Major General Hossein Salami.
Iran has not too long ago suffered setbacks in Lebanon after Israeli assaults towards Iranian-backed Hezbollah and the toppling of Tehran’s ally President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria final month.
But Salami warned, in a speech carried by state TV a couple of “false sense of delight” amongst Iran’s enemies, saying Iran and notably its missile forces had been stronger than ever.
While Iranian officers have downplayed Iran’s setbacks, an Iranian common, Behrouz Esbati, who was reportedly based mostly in Syria, stated in a speech circulated on social media that Iran had “badly lost” in Syria. Reuters couldn’t confirm the recording.
Trump in 2018 withdrew from a deal struck by his predecessor Barack Obama in 2015 through which Iran agreed to curb uranium enrichment, which may yield materials for nuclear weapons, in return for the relief of U.S. and U.N. financial sanctions.
Source: www.anews.com.tr