On November 24, 2007, the Iranian Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced that "a self-built destroyer named Jamaran and self-built Ghadir-class submarines will start operating on November 28th." And that the submarines of this class will be equipped with the latest military and technological equipment and can be compared with foreign classes in terms of performance. Against the background of the Iran sanctions, it is of great importance for the country to achieve a certain level of self-sufficiency in submarine construction. However, various sources indicate that the North Korean Yono class was the development base for the Ghadir class. With the relatively short length of only 29 meters and equipped with a diesel-electric drive, this class can be assigned to the coastal submarines. They operate primarily in the Persian Gulf and serve to combat surface ships. On 24 February 2019 the Iranian military video footage released by a rocket launch a Nasr - Seezielflugkörpers within the Velayet 97 -Manövers. The footage shows that an surfaced Ghadir-class submarine launches the cruise missile. An object can be seen leaving one of the two torpedo tubes of the boat relatively slowly and accelerating as it approached the surface of the water. Then a rocket could be seen that pierced the water surface and was accelerated into the air by a booster . Remnants of the "launch capsule" from which the missile took off remained in the sea.
Ghadir-class submarines
Several Ghadir-class submarines during the Velayat 94 maneuver
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