October 7, 2006 :: BBC Worldwide Monitoring :: News
On September 25, the Iranian newspaper
Mardom-Salari published an interview with Admiral Sajjad Kuchaki, commander of the Iranian Navy, who stated that “various types of a new generation of Iranian-manufactured submarines will join the Persian Gulf fleet soon, with all kinds of advanced missiles and torpedoes installed on them.” The Admiral did not provide any further specifics about these new submarines, missiles, and torpedoes. He did, however, note that “our underwater units undertake full surveillance of the foreign forces and monitor them from very close distances, less than one or two kilometers,” adding that “our units even passed beneath the American aircraft carrier, but they did not notice.” He warned “any country that intends to start the slightest aggression against our country to get well-informed about the eight-year holy defense experience,” a reference to the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, which resulted in over one million casualties.
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