Iran’s Isfahan University of Technology constructing 8 submarines.

Ghadir class midget submarine variants

Iran’s Isfahan University of Technology constructing 8 submarines.(TI).

Isfahan University of Technology in cooperation with three other universities has designed eight military and civil submarines. The construction operations of the submarines are underway, the Mehr News Agency reported.

They have a variety of uses, including tourism, exploration, defense, and laying cables.

Iran's Deputy Defense Minister Mohammad Eslami announced earlier this month that the country plans to unveil the first indigenous submarine within the next few months.

He added that the final stages of the submarine's design and construction are currently underway and that it will be unveiled by August 2013.

The submarine has been entirely designed and manufactured by Iranian experts according to the country's needs, he said.

Iran's Navy previously launched the indigenous Tareq 901 and Ghadir class submarines as part of efforts to upgrade the country's defense capabilities, Press TV reported.

The Ghadir submarine was first unveiled in 2007. The 120-ton vessel has excellent shallow depth performance and can conduct prolonged coastal missions and launch torpedoes.

Eslami also revealed that new indigenous fighters and modern drones would be unveiled in the near future. In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in the defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in essential military equipment and systems.

Iran has repeatedly assured other nations, especially its neighbors, that its military might poses no threat to other countries, insisting that its defense doctrine is based on deterrence.Hmmmm.....'We all live in an Azure submarine'?Read the full story here.

100 Iranian MPs sign a draft law aimed at blocking Europe-bound oil tankers from using the Strait of Hormuz

                                 Iranian bases in the Strait of Hormuz.


100 Iranian MPs sign a draft law aimed at blocking Europe-bound oil tankers from using the Strait of Hormuz.(AJ).Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has drafted a bill calling for Iran to try to stop oil tankers from shipping crude through the Strait of Hormuz to countries that support sanctions against it. "There is a bill prepared in the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of Parliament that stresses the blocking of oil tanker traffic carrying oil to countries that have sanctioned Iran," Iranian MP Ibrahim Agha-Mohammadi was quoted by Iran's parliamentary news agency as saying on Monday. "This bill has been developed as an answer to the European Union's oil sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran."Agha-Mohammadi said that 100 of Tehran's 290 members of parliament had signed the bill as of Sunday. Iran has been floating the threat of closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the oil-rich Gulf if its nuclear programme is targeted by air strikes that Israel and the United States reserve as an option. While this is a preliminary move that may go no further, even a credible threat to shutting down the strait could lead to oil prices nearly doubling. So far, Iranian political and military officials have said they had no intention on carrying out any threat to close the strait.Hmmmm.....As i said last year once there's an alternative to transport Saudi oil the game will be on.Read the full story here.