Press TV - The Navy of Iran�s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the IRGC�s ongoing drills simulate actual warzone engagement with real enemy forces and are meant to send across a message of warning to those potentially seeking to undermine the country�s security.

�These maneuvers have taken shape based on [the notion of] wargame and the strategies that we employ in the Persian Gulf and the country�s [general] southern expanse,� IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said on Wednesday.

�The maneuvers drill the manner of establishing security in the Persian Gulf and confronting those [potentially] disturbing this security,� he added.

Although, the exercise does not carry any warning message to our friendly and neighboring countries, �it serves as a warning for those, who could seek to disrupt our security,� the commander said.

Not only would not the Corps allow the Islamic Republic�s enemies to perpetrate any �act of misuse� in the waters, but also it would not tolerate any such measure against any spot of the country�s expanse, he asserted.

Tangsiri was speaking on the sidelines of large-scale drills by the Corps, codenamed Payambar-e A�zam (The Great Prophet) 14, that has enlisted both the elite force�s Navy and its Aerospace Division.

During the maneuvers that spanned the general area of Hormozgan Province, west of the strategic Hormuz Strait, and the Persian Gulf, the Corps staged �all-out and multi-layer� strikes against the life-size replica of a Nimitz-class US aircraft carrier.

The IRGC�s servicemen began the episode by destroying the mock carrier�s accompaniment with coast-to-sea fire. State television aired footage showing the damage caused to the mock aircraft carrier following the operational juncture, and the IRGC commandos� rappelling onto the vessel.

In an unprecedented move, the IRGC also fired ballistic missiles from underground launch facilities during the drills.

The drills have been monitored by Iran�s first military satellite Nour (Light)-1 that was launched by the Corps into orbit in April. Simultaneously, the satellite relayed a high-resolution vivid image of the al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar that is reportedly the largest United States� base in West Asia.

On Tuesday, CNN reported that following the launch of ballistic missiles by the Corps during the drills, al-Udeid and al-Dhafra, another airbase in the United Arab Emirates, were temporarily put on �high alert� and the American forces deployed there were asked to stay in bunkers.

Tangsiri, meanwhile, offered more details of the operations undertaken during the �wargame-style� maneuvers.

He cited designing and deployment of extensive rocket fire, amphibious naval air force and its cruise missiles, conduct of defensive and offensive mine-planting that sought to practice cutting off of enemy connection lines, and engaging of a domestically-built missile-carrying helicopter.

Coastal defense, destruction of amphibious, logistical, and combat enemy vessels using coast-to-sea and seaborne missile power were among some other measures drilled during the exercise.

�Foreigners travel a thousand miles and carry out a threatening drill against our speedboats here, but the Persian Gulf is our home, and this is the 14th edition of the Payambar-e A�zam (The Great Prophet) that we are carrying out here,� the commander noted.