Amid ongoing tensions, Iran has conducted air defense drills in the border region with Pakistan. Tehran carried out this exercise to prevent enemy attacks by using drones from the country’s southwestern to southeastern coastal areas.
Iranian forces have successfully launched a new air defense system that can repel enemy attacks and hit installations using drones, an Iranian military spokesman was quoted as saying on Friday (Jan 19).
The two-day exercise, which began on Thursday, was conducted from Abdan in southwestern Khuzestan province to Chahbahar in southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Iranian Army’s Air Force and Navy, Space Force and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy participated in the exercise.
Relations between the two countries heated up when Iran launched a missile attack on Pakistan last Tuesday amid tensions in the Middle East over the Gaza war. Last Thursday, Pakistan launched an airstrike in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province. At least 9 Iranians were killed. Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in this incident.
Two Pakistani children were killed and three others injured in an Iranian attack on Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Tuesday. In response to this attack by Iran, Islamabad counterattacked the country on Thursday. The Pakistan Army claimed that the attack was carried out targeting the positions and installations of terrorist groups in several places along the border with Iran. Tehran has claimed that terrorist groups were also targeted in the attack in Pakistan.
