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Iran has armed 51 cities and towns with a civil protection system aimed at responding to any foreign attack as tensions with the United States have increased in recent weeks.
The defenses will allow the Iranian military to “identify and monitor threats using software around the clock based on the type of threat and risk,” Deputy Defense Minister General Mehdi Farahi said Saturday, according to a Reuters report.
“These days, depending on the strength of the countries, the form of the battles has become more complicated,” he added.
People make gestures and wave former flags of Iran as they protest outside the Antwerp Criminal Court during the trial of four people, including an Iranian diplomat and a Belgian-Iranian couple, in Antwerp on February 4, 2021.
(Dirk Waem / Belga / AFP via Getty Images)
Farahi did not name any specific country Tehran could be targeted from, but noted that conventional warfare has largely been replaced by cyber, biological and radioactive attack tactics.
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The defensive measures come as military tensions in the Red Sea escalated this week as the Iranian navy attempted to capture several US drones from international waters.
The first incident occurred on Monday when an Iranian ship attempted to hijack a US drone in the Persian Gulf by towing it behind its ship before the US 5th Fleet sent a helicopter and ship to stop the Iranian crew.
This photo released by the United States Navy shows the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ship Shahid Bazair, left, towing a United States Navy Saildrone Explorer in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.
(US Navy)
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Iran went further in its second attempt on Thursday when a warship hijacked and arrested two US marine drones operating close to each other in international waters.
The US 5th Fleet again detected the hijacking and sent two destroyers and a helicopter, the Pentagon said Friday night.
The helicopter then approached the Iranian warship and found the crew of the Iranian ship attempting to cover the marine drones with tarpaulins.
In this photo taken by Iranian state television, Iranian navy sailors launch an American maritime drone at sea in the Red Sea on Thursday, September 1, 2022.
(Iranian state television via AP)
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“The Iranians knew they were wrong,” a US official told Fox News. “This was deliberate. The US 5th Fleet has been using these systems since the fall of last year.”
The Iranian ship released its sea vessels on Friday morning.
