State media: Iran to hold military drills in the Strait of Hormuz

[Zarvan]

(CNN) -- Iran plans to conduct military drills in the Strait of Hormuz in February, state media said Friday.

The announcement comes amid tensions about the strategically important waterway.

Dubbed "the Great Prophet," the drills will be different from previous ones, a commander with Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps told Press TV.

It was unclear how the drills will be different.
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Iran launched a 10-day drill in the strait in late December. It threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, the only outlet from the Persian Gulf. The critical shipping lane had 17 million barrels of oil per day passing through in 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.

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Iran threatened to block the strait if sanctions are imposed on its oil exports. France, Britain and Germany have proposed sanctions to punish Iran's lack of cooperation on its nuclear program.

That threat led to a war of words about the strait.

"Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated," Cmdr. Amy Derrick Frost, spokeswoman for the U.S. 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, said at the time,

The United States has had forces in the Persian Gulf since World War II. Its ships sail through the Persian Gulf frequently, many on their way to and from the 5th Fleet's headquarters in Bahrain.

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

Again????????

 

[Oldman1]

Again????????

Yes again! Practice makes perfect.

 

[graphican]

I hope these drills are 100 days long.. Iran has right to conduct drills and its upon them to decide long it would be.

 

[Oldman1]

I hope these drills are 100 days long.. Iran has right to conduct drills and its upon them to decide long it would be.

Hope so, spending money and ammo on it when tensions are high.

 

[graphican]

Hope so, spending money and ammo on it when tensions are high.

This is also a way to block way for Aircraft Carrier. A Good Excuse I guess.

 

[kollang]

Hope so, spending money and ammo on it when tensions are high.

when we do a drill.the oil value will grow so we'll spend nothing

 

[Harry_Thomason]

Yes again! Practice makes perfect.

Actually its true If you expect war is coming, do you lay on the back, or train 24/7?

 

[Crive]

when we do a drill.the oil value will grow so we'll spend nothing

that works for us that make everything on our own.not those who buy all of their oil equipment from Europe

 

[FriendOfPakistan]

Do you have more information - sources - on how self-sufficient Iran is in producing oil drilling and extraction equipment ?

My guess is that most of the equipment is purchased from outside, especially for large oil fields. But I will be happy if you can prove me wrong.

that works for us that make everything on our own.not those who buy all of their oil equipment from Europe

 

[Banglar Lathial]

This exercise is for the IRGC, the previous one was for IRIN.

 

[Crive]

Do you have more information - sources - on how self-sufficient Iran is in producing oil drilling and extraction equipment ?

My guess is that most of the equipment is purchased from outside, especially for large oil fields. But I will be happy if you can prove me wrong.

i yes we have enough Wellhead Equipments and we have limited resources but we have enough technology for that and this self sufficient movement begun back in 90 .god bless reverse engineer and our engineers who doing research for latest equipment
however im not saying that we are in the last step of knowledge and science but we can drill and control Wells even big ones and we can without foreign helps. that's why we Dismissed Russian company (gasprom)that delayed in southwestern extractions and hand it over to an Iranian consortium .

so stop guessing and do something here if you care about iran.