The tiny submarines are well-suited to operations in the Strait of Hormuz, where the shallow waters and heavy maritime traffic make them nearly impossible to spot with sonar. President Donald Trump ...

Somewhere along Iran’s southern coastline, in waters barely deep enough to swallow a three-story building, a 29-meter submarine can slip beneath the surface, fire a heavyweight torpedo, and vanish ...

Iran’s Ghadir -Class Submarine Is No Joke One such Iranian asset that few people appear to be tracking is Iran’s Ghadir -class diesel-electric submarines. Designed for operations in the shallower ...

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 ...

Iran on Sunday launched a new locally-made submarine capable of firing cruise missiles, state TV said, in the country's latest show of military might at a time of heightened tensions with the US.

WASHINGTON — A top Iranian navy commander claimed the Islamic Republic has deployed some of its small submarines, known as the “dolphins of the Persian Gulf,” in the Strait of Hormuz to wreak further ...

Iran plans to build submarines for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corp (IRGC), according to Rear Admiral Amir Rastegari, the head of the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics’ Marine ...