ISWNews Analysis Group: At least 13 people were martyred and 26 were wounded as a result of a terrorist attack by the ISIS terrorist group on the Shah Cheragh shrine in the city of Shiraz.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Force military exercise with the code name ‘Eghtedar 1401’ (Might 1401) was held in Aras region in the northwest borders of Iran.
In the southernmost part of the Caucasus, Iran shares a 750-kilometer border with Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan region, of which about 138 km had been controlled by Armenian forces after the end of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1991–1994). After the Second Karabakh War in 2020, these areas returned to the sovereignty of Azerbaijan. For its part, Iran’s border with Armenia is only 40 km and yet is considered a lifeline for the three million Armenians whose landlocked country has been regionally isolated by Azerbaijan and Turkey.
After the increase of destructive activities of the terrorist groups based in the Kurdistan region of Iraq against the national security of Iran and the failure of the Iraqi authorities to take the necessary measures to expel the terrorist groups from the area, the IRGC has started a new operation against the terrorist groups in this region.
Following the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against the positions of terrorist groups in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Bradost Mountain and Hallgord Mountain located in northeast of Erbil were targeted by several missiles and artillery rockets.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Following the missile and drone attacks of the Iranian Armed Forces against terrorist groups in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, 15 militants have been officially killed so far.
The positions of the terrorist groups of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI), Komala, PJAK, etc. in the northeast of Iraq have been under artillery and drone attacks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the fourth consecutive day.
ISWNews Analysis Group: On August 31, a US Navy sea drone was controlled and towed by the Iran’s IRGC Navy in the Persian Gulf and eventually released after a while.
The Iranian Army’s 1401 joint drone exercise was conducted for two days (August 24-25) with the participation of more than 150 drones in a wide area of Iran from the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea in the south to the east, west, north and center of the country.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Iran’s first high-precision satellite was launched into space by the Soyuz launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrom in Kazakhstan in cooperation with the Iranian and Russian space agencies.
ISWNews Analysis Group: As a result of the fourth border conflict between Taliban militants and Iranian border guards in Doost Mohammad border region on July 31, several Taliban militants were killed and injured.
The first Navy’s drone fleet of the Iranian Army was unveiled during a ceremony attended by Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Admiral Shahram Irani, Commander of the Strategic Naval Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army.
