Iran’s forces are also powerful in the air, and the missiles are prepared to be used to counter the enemies, Iranian general said.

“Today, despite being under a scientific and technological siege, we, ourselves, provide all of our needs in all areas and it should be said that we continue to be  and formidable,” Tasnim agency quotes Lieutenant Commander of the IRGC Brigadier General Hossein Salami.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy on January 12, 2016, captured the US Navy sailors inside Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf but released them the next day following an apology and after technical and operational investigations indicated that the intrusion into Iranian territorial waters was “unintentional”, the agency writes.