{"id":110190,"date":"2026-05-12T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/110190\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:31:09","slug":"new-age-irgc-conducts-military-drills-in-tehran-as-ceasefire-teeters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/110190\/","title":{"rendered":"New Age | IRGC conducts military drills in Tehran as ceasefire teeters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                              &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                             <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"igm-fluid lazy_bk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a6ee482168488a56f35fb0020f729fe2.jpg\" alt=\"Image description\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                             A woman holds the Iranian flag as she stands infront of an anti-US billboard referring to President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, installed on a building at the Valiasr Square in Tehran on May 10, 2026. |  AFP photo                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards held military exercises in Tehran to prepare for any confrontation, state media reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, US president Donald Trump warned a ceasefire in the Middle East war was on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The drills involved the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC, the ideological arm of Iran\u2019s military, as well as the Basij, a paramilitary force affiliated with the Guards, according to state TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Enhancing combat capability to confront any movement of the American-Zionist enemy was one of the goals and scenarios implemented in this drill, which was successfully carried out,\u2019 Brigadier General Hassan Hassanzadeh, commander of the Tehran Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying by state TV.<\/p>\n<p>The war, which started more than two months ago with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, spread across the Middle East and damaged the global economy, affecting hundreds of millions worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has choked off the Strait of Hormuz &#8212; a vital route out of the Gulf for oil, gas and fertiliser, seeking to wield economic leverage over the United States and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>The US Navy, meanwhile, is blockading Iran\u2019s ports, at times disabling or diverting ships heading to and from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; A woman holds the Iranian flag as she stands infront of an anti-US billboard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3106,3105,3103,3100,3102,3099,34,3104,3101,3097,69,3098],"class_list":{"0":"post-110190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-bangla-online-news","9":"tag-bangladesh-latest-news","10":"tag-bangladesh-news","11":"tag-bangladesh-newspaper","12":"tag-bangladeshi-newspapers","13":"tag-daily-new-age","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-latest-bangladesh-news","16":"tag-most-popular-outspoken-english-daily-newpaper-in-bangladesh","17":"tag-new-age","18":"tag-tehran","19":"tag-the-new-age"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116561856852679829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110190","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=110190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}