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Iran has armed 51 cities and towns with a civil defense system aimed at responding to foreign attacks, as tensions with the United States have increased in recent weeks.
Undersecretary of Defense Mehdi Farahi said on Saturday that the defense would allow the Iranian military to “use software around the clock to identify and monitor threats, depending on the type of threat and risk,” according to a Reuters report. said it would be possible.
“These days, depending on the strength of the country, the format of the battle has become more complex,” he added.
Farahi did not name a specific country Tehran could target, but noted that conventional warfare has been largely replaced by cyber, biological and radiological tactics.
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The defensive action was taken as military tensions rose in the Red Sea this week as the Iranian navy attempted to capture several US drones from the high seas.
The first incident occurred on Monday when an Iranian ship attempted to seize a U.S. drone by towing it behind the ship in the Persian Gulf, after which the U.S. Fifth Fleet sent helicopters and ships to intercept Iran. stopped the crew of
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Iran went further in its second attempt on Thursday when a warship seized and detained two US drones operating near each other in international waters.
The US Fifth Fleet has again spotted the seizure and has dispatched two destroyers and a helicopter, the Pentagon said Friday night.
The helicopter then approached the Iranian warship and found the Iranian ship’s crew trying to hide the seed drone with a tarp.
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“The Iranians knew they were wrong,” a US official told Fox News. We operate the system.”
The Iranian ship released the vessel on Friday morning.