- Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami visited the new missile base and footage broadcast by state TV showed rows of missiles stashed at the facility
- No location was given for the base, but last year the Guards claimed they had built a number of underground ‘missile cities’ along the Gulf coastline
- Salami bragged that it is only a ‘small section’ of Iran’s ‘great and expansive’ missiles
Tim Stickings – Mail Online March 16, 2021
Iran has showed off what it says is a new high-tech ‘missile city’ with an underground stash of rockets operated by its Revolutionary Guards.
The base was inspected by Guards commander Hossein Salami who boasted that it makes up only a ‘small section of the great and expansive missile capability’ possessed by Tehran.
Footage broadcast by state TV showed rows of missiles stashed in a depot at the underground base, while the head of the Guards’ naval unit said the site was equipped to detect enemy signals.
The report claimed the base’s ‘electronic warfare equipment’ included radar, monitoring, simulation and disruption systems.
Missile launchers at Irans recently unvieled ‘missile city’, which is thought to be located on or near the Persian Gulf coastline. Click to enlarge
Iran has one of the biggest missile programmes in the Middle East and regularly boasts of technological advances in its armed forces.
No location was given for the base, but last year the Guards claimed they had built a number of underground ‘missile cities’ along the Gulf coastline.
General Salami – who succeeded the late Qassem Soleimani after his death in a US drone strike last January – bragged that the cruise and ballistic missiles would boost the strength of the Guards’ naval forces.
Tehran claims to have missiles that can travel as far as 1,200 miles placing much of the Middle East, including Israel, within range.
Following Soleimani’s death, Iran retaliated by firing at US bases in Iraq before the Guards caused a separate crisis by clumsily shooting down a passenger plane.
The deaths and attempted cover-up turned the initial wave of public support for the Iranian regime into several days of angry protests.
But Iran has continued to spar with the US and last year launched ballistic missiles in an exercise involving a mock-up US aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting its network of subterranean missile bases.
No doubt showing their own missiles stored in their own country to defend their homeland from foreign attack will be called an aggressive posture by the war criminal regime in Washington, which thinks it owns the earth and tries to take it but proves instead it’s only good enough to kill civilians but not good enough to win a war.
Unlike Afghanistan which has held off the US for twenty years, even though its rag-tag army of volunteers are mostly farmers who cross mountains on foot while the US has air superiority, Iran has an air force, a navy, air defences and a capable professional army. So the US will lose yet another war it started.
“General Salami – who succeeded the late Qassem Soleimani ….”
No, the head of IRGC’s Qods force division after Soleimani now is General Qa’ani.
Those are cruise missiles, they are good and effective but the real deterrence power is in the ballistic missiles.
That’s bullying. Only a few years ago Iran had nothing to speak of. But the incessant bullying and threatening has turned them into a nuclear country with the most modern weapons systems produced by their own industries.
That’s a whole pile of STUPIDITY in my book.
Being the bully-boy for Rothschild makes the USA unimportant.