Tasnim - Amid heightened tensions with the US, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on Tuesday kicked off large-scale military drills in the Persian Gulf off the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The military exercise, code-named Payambar e Azam 14, is the largest of its kind in the region where Tehran and Washington have been on a collision course recently. The drills will be monitored by Irans Nour-1 (Light-1) satellite, a multi-purpose Iranian domestic satellite that was successfully launched into space on April 22. According to IRGCs news portal Sepah News, several regiments from IRGCs navy and aerospace divisions are participating in the high-profile military exercise, featuring missiles, vessels, drones, and radars.
