Tehran, IRNA – The commander of the Iranian Army’s Air Defense Force, Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard, has said that the country possesses the most powerful air defense across the region.

The commander also said that enemies of the Islamic Republic know very well that the country’s air defense has a superior power, and that its airspace is the safest in the world.

He added that the Army’s Air Defense Force has the most developed indigenous equipment, from identification and interception to surveillance systems.

Sabahifard was speaking at a ceremony to commemorate the martyrs of the Army’s Air Defense Force, the Army’s Public Relations Office reported on Friday.

The ceremony was held on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Week that began last Friday to mark the war imposed on Iran by Iraq’s toppled Baath regime in the 1980s.    

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