Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards will stage missile defence exercises starting on Sunday, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
The announcement of the war games coincides with increased tension in Iran's nuclear dispute with the West, after this week's disclosure by the Islamic Republic that it is building a second uranium enrichment plant.
"The Revolutionary Guards' air force will tomorrow start missile, defensive war games ... as part of regular annual defence plans to maintain and upgrade defence capacities of ... Iran's armed forces," a Guards statement said, quoted by the Mehr and IRNA news agencies.
General Hossein Salami, head of the Guards' air force, said the games would include simultaneous firings of missiles at targets. The exercises will last several days and take place in various locations.
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The announcement of the war games coincides with increased tension in Iran's nuclear dispute with the West, after this week's disclosure by the Islamic Republic that it is building a second uranium enrichment plant.
"The Revolutionary Guards' air force will tomorrow start missile, defensive war games ... as part of regular annual defence plans to maintain and upgrade defence capacities of ... Iran's armed forces," a Guards statement said, quoted by the Mehr and IRNA news agencies.
General Hossein Salami, head of the Guards' air force, said the games would include simultaneous firings of missiles at targets. The exercises will last several days and take place in various locations.
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