Here’s What You Need To Remember: While still greatly outclassed by virtually every other submarine, the Iranian submarine threat is growing. The Iranian Navy has several types of submarines in ...
An Iranian Tareq-class submarine at sea - Omid Vahabzadeh/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0 After the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February 2026, it became increasingly important to ...
As attention turns to how Iran might respond to the recent US strikes, a key question is the extent to which it can target US interests in Gulf waters. Despite the ongoing confrontation, Iran’s navy ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN) officially commissioned its first indigenously developed Fateh-class submarine on 17 February. Iran’s Fateh-class submarine seen out of the water at the ...
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most intensely monitored waterways on earth, yet beneath its shallow, noisy surface Iran has built a submarine threat that is deliberately hard to hear and even ...
On a single day in early 2026, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy pushed submarines and fast-attack craft into the Strait of Hormuz, declared a temporary closure of the waterway for ...
Here’s What You Need To Remember: Past experience demonstrates that Tehran routinely exaggerates and obfuscates the scale of its defense projects, and the timeline in which they will be completed.