ISNA - Tehran
Service: Politic

TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iran is to launch an army submarine by next ten days, said Iran's Army Commander-in-Chief, Brigadier General Ataollah Salehi on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters in southern port of Bandar Abbas, Salehi said, his trip mainly has sought monitoring progresses in the process of repairment and rebuilding of surface and sub-surface crafts as well as visiting a submarine that is to be launched by next 10 days.

He added, "modernizing equipments inside the crafts have made us hopeful that we can boost our influence to far seas."

He continued, Iranian ground, air and navy forces of the army are fully ready to tackle threats and naval forces' missions also include the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean besides Iranian territorial waters.

Salehi then turned to the recent UN resolution on Iran imposed early June allowing inspection of Iranian ships and said, "imposition of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran in the form of inspection of its ships is not accepted by the country and it believes that there is no difference between Somali pirates and American ones."

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