Iran's army prepared for any threat: IRGC commander

Iran's army is at the highest level of combat readiness in response to any threat or aggression, Ahmad Vahidi, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), said on Friday.

Funerals were held on Friday morning in Tehran and other cities across the country for 350 unnamed martyrs who lost their lives during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and whose remains were recovered 38 years later.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and several high-ranking military officers attended the funerals.

Speaking at the funeral for 110 unidentified martyrs in Tehran, Vahidi said that Iran's armed forces are at the highest level of readiness to strike in case of any attacks.

Any hostile act and even the slightest aggression by the enemy will be met with dreadful and painful blows, he said.

Should an attack occur, Iran will aim to strike the enemy deep within its territory, without any geographical limits, Vahidi said.

Iran's army prepared for any threat: IRGC commander

China's loan interest rates remained low in October, the People's Bank of China said on Friday.

In October, the weighted average rate on newly issued enterprise loans was about 2.9 percent, down 0.2 percentage points year on year, while that on new personal housing loans was about 3.1 percent, basically unchanged from the same period last year, the central bank's data showed.

China’s loan interest rates remain low in October