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Iran to stage massive Gulf military exercise!!
TEHRAN: Thousands of Iranian troops will start a week-long military maneouvre in the Gulf tomorrow to ready armed forces for warding off “threats”, a senior commander announced on state television.

The commander of the navy of Revolutionary Guards Corps, Rear Admiral Mostafa Safari, did not specify the nature of the threat although the exercise comes amid increasing tensions with the West over Tehran’s nuclear programme.

“The Revolutionary Guards Corps navy and air force in collaboration with (Iran’s regular) army, navy, (the volunteer militia) Basij, and the Iranian police will start a maneouvre from 31 March until 6 April from the northern tip of the Gulf to the Sea of Oman,” he said.

Iran has two armed forces in which both have their own ground, naval and air force all under the command of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=79337&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17
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