{"id":27046,"date":"2025-02-20T19:52:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/irgc-kicks-off-major-eghtedar-drill-in-eastern-iran\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T19:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:22:57","slug":"irgc-kicks-off-major-eghtedar-drill-in-eastern-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irgc-kicks-off-major-eghtedar-drill-in-eastern-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC kicks off major Eghtedar drill in eastern Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5389360.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The drill, codenamed Eqtedar-e Payambar-e-A\u2019azam (The Authority of the Great Prophet) 19, kicked off at the\u00a0permanent prayers ground\u00a0of\u00a0the provincial capital city of\u00a0Birjand on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Various divisions and units of the IRGC, particularly from Beit ul-Moqaddas and al-Kawthar battalions have participated in the war game, according to Press TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Ebrahim\u00a0Jabbari, a senior advisor to the chief commander of the IRGC, General\u00a0Mohammad Reza Mahdavi, who commands the\u00a0Ansar al-Reza Corps\u00a0which is based in the\u00a0South Khorasan\u00a0Province,\u00a0as well as a number of provincial security and administrative figures attended the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the primary task of the Basij volunteer force, mobilization of all facilities, coordination, and delegation of duties among the participating divisions of the maneuver are underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVarious units with numerous facilities and equipment are present at the drill. We were unable to bring in all hardware due to space limitations. What matters a lot is the coordination, empathy, and synergy, which are prevalent in the province,\u201d Mahdavi noted.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian military forces hold routine exercises according to a detailed schedule in various parts of the country in order to test their weaponry and equipment and evaluate their combat preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s officials have repeatedly underscored that the country will not hesitate to strengthen its military capabilities, including its missile power, which are entirely meant for defense, and that Iran\u2019s defense capabilities will never be subject to negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228649\/IRGC-kicks-off-major-Eghtedar-drill-in-eastern-Iran\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drill, codenamed Eqtedar-e Payambar-e-A\u2019azam (The Authority of the Great Prophet) 19, kicked off at the\u00a0permanent prayers ground\u00a0of\u00a0the provincial capital city of\u00a0Birjand on Thursday. Various divisions and units of the IRGC, particularly from Beit ul-Moqaddas and al-Kawthar battalions have participated in the war game, according to Press TV.\u00a0 Brigadier General Ebrahim\u00a0Jabbari, a senior advisor to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}