{"id":110080,"date":"2026-05-12T12:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/110080\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:19:29","slug":"irgc-conducts-five-day-military-drill-near-tehran-to-boost-combat-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/110080\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC conducts five-day military drill near Tehran to boost combat readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has conducted a large-scale military exercise around Tehran designed to enhance readiness to confront what it described as enemy threats, Iranian media reported. <\/p>\n<p>The five-day drill, titled \u201cMartyred Commander Imam Khamenei\u201d, was carried out by the Mohammad Rasulullah Corps of the IRGC in Greater Tehran under the slogan \u201cLabbaik Ya Khamenei\u201d (\u201cAt your service, O Khamenei\u201d), <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/farsnews.ir\/M_r7726\/1778586221645463230\/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B2-%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9-%DB%8C%D8%A7-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fars News Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Hassan Hassanzadeh, commander of the Mohammad Rasulullah Corps in Greater Tehran, said IRGC and Basij commando units reached full operational readiness during the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this exercise, all pre-planned scenarios, tactics, and team and individual combat techniques against the enemy in any territory were practised and evaluated,\u201d Hassanzadeh said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that one of the main objectives of the exercise was to enhance combat capabilities against \u201cany movement by the American-Zionist enemy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exercise was successfully carried out and all its objectives were achieved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fars, the drills were conducted in operational areas surrounding Tehran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has conducted a large-scale military exercise around Tehran designed to enhance readiness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10117,37848,17971,34,424,179,37849,69,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-110080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-combat-readiness","9":"tag-drill","10":"tag-exercise","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-irgc","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-mohammad-rasulullah","15":"tag-tehran","16":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116561573445468200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}