Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on Thursday started military manoeuvres in the sea property in Iran in the Gulf, the fourth in eight weeks, the news network Khabar reported. The week of war games entitled 'EqtEdar' (Might) would test the latest technical developments in the navy and use of the new tactical submarine and missile launchers.

The manoeuvres - like the three previous ones - were aimed at showing Iran's readiness to confront any possible military strikes by the United States in the Gulf and against Iran's nuclear sites.

IRGC navy commander General Morteza Safar told ISNA news agency that Iranians would not allow even one US soldier enter Iranian soil.

'If the Americans started a war against Iran, then they would not be the ones to end it,' the commander said.

'What keeps Islamic Iran is our spirit of resistance and martyrdom,' he added.

The IRGC has several times said that all foreign warships in the Gulf, including those of the US, were in range of Iranian missiles.

Iranian leaders brand US threats as a 'psychological war', but warn the armed forces are ready for any possible confrontation.