The maneuvers will take place this week across 850,000 square kilometers (330,000 square miles) of Iran's northeast, east, and southeast regions, Iranian media reported.
About 8,000 elite and regular army troops will participate, backed by bombers and fighter planes, while missile, artillery and surveillance systems will be tested, they said.
Played out against a backdrop of high tension between the United States and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, the "Velayat-4" maneuvers will involve the biggest air drills the country has ever held.
Tensions between the United States and Iran reached new levels recently when Iranian President Mahmhoud Ahmadinejad launched production of enriched uranium fuel rods in Tehran. He also announced the setting up of four more nuclear reactors, showing the West that it has advanced its nuclear technology.
Now Iran is showing the world it's military power. In my opinion Let's just show the bastards who has the real military power.
In December of 2011, Iran shocked the world when it claimed to have landed a
U.S. drone that it said was spying in Iranian airspace. An embarrassed
Pentagon said that the drone crossed into Iranian airspace from
Afghanistan owing to a technical snag. Iran has since said that it
possesses six American drones, which it has landed by deploying Iranian
communication technology.In January, 2012, an Iranian court issued a death sentence to an American of Iranian descent convicted on charges of spying for the CIA. Also in January, an Iranian nuclear scientist died in a terrorist bomb blast in northern Tehran when an unidentified motorcyclist attached a magnetic explosive device to the scientist's car. Iran indicated that it believed the United States and Israel were responsible for the killing.
Israel also wants the United States to attack Iran, destroy its nuclear establishments and in the process weaken its military. Washington is not only increasing international pressure on Iran through sanctions, but also encouraging domestic opposition against Ahmadinejad's government within Iran. Washington expected New Delhi to stand with it on Iran issue, but, taking a clear stand, India has politely rejected the American suggestion and instead called for a diplomatic route to break deadlock. Countries like Russia, China and India are apparently choosing standing with Iran over the option of military action.
As U.S. allies, countries like France, Spain, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and Portugal proposed to stop oil imports from Iran from July onwards. They estimated that Iran could be made to fall in line using such threats. But their policy seems to have boomeranged as Iran has decided to stop crude exports to these countries with immediate effect. By this step, Iran has tried to prove that it is strong enough economically to deflect such threats.
This standoff between the West and Iran is a matter of serious concern in the times of global economic slowdown and the danger of looming recession.
Does Iran treat American threats as mere hollow rhetoric? Economic slowdown has crippled Washington's ability to get involved in another needless war. Perhaps this is the reason why Iran is openly challenging U.S. hegemony.
We would crush Iran just like we did to Iraq.
United States of America
LAND ARMY
Total Land Weapons: 56,269 Tanks: 9,573 [2011] APCs / IFVs: 26,653 [2011] Towed Artillery: 2,163 [2011] SPGs: 950 [2011] MLRSs: 1,430 [2011] Mortars: 7,500 [2011] AT Weapons: 8,000 [2011] AA Weapons: 2,106 [2011] Logistical Vehicles: 267,247
AIR POWER Total Aircraft: 18,234 [2011] Helicopters: 6,417 [2011] Serviceable Airports: 15,097 [2011]
NAVAL POWER Total Navy Ships: 2,384 Merchant Marine Strength: 418 [2011] Major Ports & Terminals: 21 Aircraft Carriers: 11 [2012] Destroyers: 61 [2012] Submarines: 71 [2012] Frigates: 26 [2012] Patrol Craft: 12 [2011] Mine Warfare Craft: 14 [2012] Amphibious Assault Craft: 31 [2012]
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