Iranian Army to Test Ground Forces' Mobility in Massive Exercises

TEHRAN,May 11 (FNA)- Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army Brigadier General Abdul-Rahim Mousavi announced that the Army plans to test its ground forces' mobility in massive military exercises in the next few days.
Mousavi said that the joint drills, dubbed as "Jafar Tayyar (AS)" will be held in Iran's Southeastern regions from Saturday and will last for a week.

The commander announced that multi-purpose ground units, offensive choppers, airborne logistics and transportation units, Air Force bombers and fighter jets and air defense units will participate in the drills.

As regards the objectives of the military drills, Mousavi stated, "Tactics for rapid deployment and redeployment, consecutive rearrangement and reformation and engagement in multiple-front confrontations will be exercised in the drills."

He further said that Army will also assess the efficiency and mobility of its forces as well as the flexibility and dynamicity of the structure of its forces in the drills.

Late in April, Mousavi had said that Iran's Armed Forces are flexible enough to confront the heaviest and most dangerous military threats in the world, a senior Iranian Army commander underlined on Tuesday.

"We have boosted flexibility in military units and prepared the necessary grounds for a dynamic structure," Mousavi said in a ceremony here in Tehran.

"At present, our military units are able to change a single-front confrontation to a multiple-fronts confrontation and can stage high mobility," Mousavi stressed at the time.

"Our military units have the capability to change their structure and redeploy their equipment rapidly," he added.