Iran bluntly, ‘If enemies attack our ships, we will also give a befitting reply’

tehran (Uttam Hindu News): A top Iranian military commander said that if the enemies target our ships, the Iranian military will definitely give them a befitting reply.

Hossein Salami, chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), commented on the naval capabilities of the country’s armed forces in a meeting with retired and current commanders and officers of the IRGC in the Iranian capital Tehran, Xinhua news agency reported. Said this while doing so.

“If they attack our ships, we will definitely attack their ships as well,” Salami said.

“The IRGC has such a huge force that it will definitely defeat the enemies in all areas, including military warfare and cyber warfare,” he stressed.

“The IRGC successfully fired a long-range ballistic missile from one of its cruisers,” Salami said in a TV interview on Monday.

“The ballistic missile was launched as part of joint cooperation between the IRGC’s aerospace division and the Navy,” he said. “Noting that the new achievement has extended the range of Iran’s naval influence and power to any desired point.”

Fars reported on Tuesday that the IRGC, for the first time, managed to equip the domestically developed Shahid Mahdavi maritime cruiser with domestically developed Fateh-class ballistic missiles with a minimum range of 1,700 km.

According to the report, the long-range ballistic missiles were launched from the deck of the Shahid Mahdavi cruiser in the Oman Sea and managed to hit their target in one of the country’s central deserts.