Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 22
By Farhad Daneshvar – Trend:
Baku hosted an event dedicated to Iran’s Sacred Defense Week, Trend correspondent reported.
Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov, MPs, several officials of Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry, and military attachés of different countries took part in the event.
Colonel Ali Seify, Iran’s military attaché in Azerbaijan, spoke at the event’s opening ceremony and said his country’s military power is defensive.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran achieved tremendous development in different issues, including defense and military fields, which is counted as guarantor of stability and national security as well as the guardian for regional peace and tranquility,” he told the ceremony.
“Clearly the most important issue in the structure of military industry of Iran is its defensive nature.”
“Iran achieved brilliant results in the fields of surface missiles, drones, satellites and satellite carriers, torpedoes, advanced coast-to-sea, air-to-sea and sea-to-sea rockets,” said Colonel Seify.
Sacred Defense Week commemorates the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980. The war, known as the Sacred Defense in Iran, began when Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran. Hundreds of thousands died on both sides during the eight-year conflict.
Iran holds a military parade every year to honor the martyrs of the eight-year war.