Tasnim - Amid heightened tensions with the US, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on Tuesday kicked off large-scale military drills in the Persian Gulf off the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The military exercise, code-named �Payambar e Azam 14�, is the largest of its kind in the region where Tehran and Washington have been on a collision course recently. The drills will be monitored by Iran�s Nour-1 (Light-1) satellite, a multi-purpose Iranian domestic satellite that was successfully launched into space on April 22. According to IRGC�s news portal Sepah News, several regiments from IRGC�s navy and aerospace divisions are participating in the high-profile military exercise, featuring missiles, vessels, drones, and radars.