Video footage showing a recent confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz between an amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy and speed boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was released on August 19 during the 24th assembly of the guard’s commanders in the Iranian capital of Tehran.
ISWNews Analysis Group – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) held naval drills of Martyr General Nasrallah Shafi’i in the provinces of Hormozgan and Bushehr and on the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf.
Shahid Soleimani warship is an Iranian multi-role catamaran missile corvette with a unique low radar cross-section which was produced on the order of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy. This warship is the first of at least three new catamaran missile corvettes of the Shahid Soleimani class, which with hull number FS313-01 was officially joined to the IRGC Navy fleet in Bandar Abbas in 5 September 2022, in the presence of Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Commander of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that the confiscated oil tanker SOTHYS was released by court order after Iranian oil was unloaded in Bandar Abbas.
