News - Middle East: The commander of the Iranian Navy says the country has reached a point of unprecedented strength that has rendered it capable of handling whatever type of confrontation.

“Today, our strength and esteem in the [country’s] Islamic establishment is not comparable to any other period,” Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said during a visit to a training center belonging to the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces in Tehran Province on Monday.

“Backed by the Armed Forces, the Islamic Republic’s sacred establishment is [now] unafraid of confrontation with any regional and extra-regional force or power in the Persian Gulf,” he added.

The commander asserted that ever since the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, the forces have staged effective and punctual presence at all required junctures.

The navy, whose area of operation used to be confined to the Persian Gulf during the years that followed the Revolution’s victory, has now managed to achieve “remarkable successes” to the point that it has now established a presence across the international waters, he noted.