They cover the area from Abadan in Khuzestan province to Chahbahar in Sistan and Balochistan.
- Iranian forces “successfully launched” a new air defense method.
- Army air force, navy, aerospace force and IRGC navy participated.
- The exercise comes after Pakistan launched attacks inside Iran.
Iran said on Friday it successfully carried out an air defense exercise using drones designed to intercept hostile targets in an area stretching from its southwest to southeast coasts, amid rising tensions in the region.
Pakistan on Thursday launched strikes on terrorist hideouts inside Iran in a retaliatory attack two days after Tehran violated the country's sovereignty by launching an attack in Balochistan that left two boys dead and three girls injured.
In a statement, Pakistan Army said that hideouts used by terrorist militant organisations, namely Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), were successfully attacked in an operation based on intelligence, codenamed “Marg Bar Sarmachar”. .
The retaliatory attacks were the highest-profile cross-border intrusions in recent years and have raised alarm about broader instability in the Middle East since war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7.
“Iranian forces have successfully launched a new air defense method that uses drones to intercept and attack hostile targets,” the state reported. TV Press quoted an Iranian military spokesman.
The two-day exercises, which began on Thursday, cover an area from Abadan in the southwestern province of Khuzestan to Chahbahar in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balochistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan.
TV Press He said that the army air force and navy, the aerospace force and the navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) participated in the exercises.
Iran and Pakistan have a history of difficult relations, but both have expressed a desire to cool tensions following this week's attacks.
Against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, Iran and its allied militias across the Middle East have been carrying out attacks against Israeli and American targets in the region in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Iran also launched attacks in Syria against what it said were Islamic State sites, and in Iraq, where it said it had attacked an Israeli spy center.
