Simon Kent 9 Jun 2020. The Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) or Revolutionary Guards' Navy (Persian: نیروی دریایی سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی ), acronym NEDSA (Persian: ندسا ), consists of 20,000 marines and 1,500 boats and fast attack boats separate from the regular Navy of Artesh assuming control over Iranian maritime operations in the Persian Gulf. Watch: Iran Readies to (Again) Attack Fake U.S. Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies via AP.
Amid US Tension, Iran Builds Fake Aircraft Carrier to Attack As tensions remain high between Iran and the U.S., the Islamic Republic appears to … by: Associated Press and Nexstar Media Wire. Following an attack on an Israeli diplomat in India in February 2012, Delhi Police at the time contended that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps had some involvement. Iran builds another fake aircraft carrier to attack amid tension with US News. Iran has re-built a crude wooden mock-up of a U.S. Navy nuclear aircraft carrier at a shipyard alongside its Persian Gulf coast, readying it for the express purpose of being targeted in live-fire drills. Iran's Revolutionary Guards were set up after the 1979 revolution to defend the Islamic system. This was subsequently confirmed in July 2012, after a report by the Delhi Police found evidence that members of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps had been involved in the 13 February bomb attack in the capital.