The maneuvers underway in the southern Makran Coast and parts of the Gulf of Oman, feature the use of short-range rockets as well as medium- and long-range surface-to-surface missiles.

Iran is building a massive petrochemical complex worth $12 billion in Chabahar which is wholly funded and owned by the private sector and is hoped to lead to a transformation of the country’s southeast.

Iran plans to build two 100-megawatt nuclear reactors on the southeast Makran coast along the Gulf of Oman to generate electricity, a senior energy official says.