TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps ground forces on Tuesday practiced defending residential areas during a simulated urban warfare.

On the sidelines of general drills, codenamed Payambar-e-A’azam 11 (the Great Prophet 11), which are underway in Dasht-e Kavir, the country’s sprawling central desert, the forces were deployed to the city of Taybad in Khorasan Razavi Province to practice defending residential neighborhoods against potential threats, the Tasnim news agency reported.

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