{"id":38863,"date":"2026-10-06T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irgc-ground-forces-join-sco-counter-terror-drill\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:58:07","slug":"irgc-ground-forces-join-sco-counter-terror-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irgc-ground-forces-join-sco-counter-terror-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC ground forces join SCO counter-terror drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5318248.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The public relations office of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Ground Forces announced that the team, representing the country&#8217;s armed forces, entered Belarus to participate in the joint counter-terrorism exercise of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The deployment comes as Western and European countries and other adversaries seek to reduce the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8217;s ties with regional states. The participation is part of Iran&#8217;s continued strategic interaction with SCO members.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The special forces team was dispatched to Belarus to exchange experience alongside forces from member states taking part in the exercise.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Ground Forces hosted the counter-terrorism exercise in Shabestar, as the fourth host country. That hosting showcased the authority and readiness of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/248368\/IRGC-ground-forces-join-SCO-counter-terror-drill\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public relations office of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Ground Forces announced that the team, representing the country&#8217;s armed forces, entered Belarus to participate in the joint counter-terrorism exercise of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. The deployment comes as Western and European countries and other adversaries seek to reduce the Islamic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38863","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=38863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}