{"id":179448,"date":"2018-11-22T05:41:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T05:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179448"},"modified":"2018-11-25T07:07:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T07:07:47","slug":"us-bases-in-qatar-uae-afghanistan-within-reach-of-iran-missiles-irgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179448","title":{"rendered":"US bases in Qatar, UAE, Afghanistan within reach of Iran missiles: IRGC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Nov 22, 2018<\/h1>\n
\"Sayyad<\/a>

Sayyad missile launched from a Talash missile system during air defense drills in Nov 2018. click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The IRGC Aerospace Commander says the US bases in Afghanistan, the UAE, and Qatar as well as the US aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf are all within reach of Iranian missiles.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe US bases around us are within our reach and are easy meat for us,\u201d Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh said in a televised interview on Wednesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

He pointed to the US\u2019 Al Udeid\u00a0Air Base in Qatar, Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE, and Kandahar\u00a0Airfield in Afghanistan, saying the\u00a0bases used to be threats to Iran\u00a0but are now “opportunities.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The US aircraft carriers in the Sea of Oman, with 40 to 50 fighter jets and 6,000 military personnel, are now within the reach of Iran\u2019s ballistic missiles, which have pinpoint accuracy and a range of 700 km, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

General Hajizadeh also referred to the Islamic Republic\u2019s drone intelligence, saying\u00a0Iran now knows in which hangar of the Kandahar Airfield the RQ-170 Sentinel — a US\u00a0unmanned aerial vehicle Iran took control of about seven years ago\u00a0— had been deployed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran\u00a0grounded the drone in December 2011 using electronic warfare techniques, as the stealth aircraft was flying over the Iranian city of Kashmar\u00a0near the Afghan border.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Iranian<\/a>

Iranian version of the U.S. RQ-170 drone, which Iran seized in December 2011. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the IRGC Aerospace commander, Iran used the reverse-engineered version of the RQ-170 drone to target Daesh positions in Syria and Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran currently possesses the biggest collection of captured or downed American and Israeli drones, including the US’ MQ1, MQ9, Shadow, ScanEagle, and RQ-170 as well as\u00a0the Israeli regime’s Hermes, Hajizadeh added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israeli drone was intercepted and shot down in October 2014 by the IRGC forces on its way\u00a0to the Natanz nuclear facility in the central Isfahan province.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, Iran is now one of the world\u2019s top four or five countries, and the top drone power in the region, General Hajizadeh said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranian-made Shahed-129 drone, for example, had round-the-clock flights over terrorists\u2019 positions in Syria and Iraq, and its services were also used by the Syrian army, the Russians, the Hezbollah forces, and others,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran’s UAV program has expanded in recent years with\u00a0more than a dozen models\u00a0operating for a variety of functions ranging from surveillance\u00a0to intelligence gathering, carrying bombs and Kamikaze operations.<\/span><\/p>\n

They have\u00a0been playing a significant role in the fight against Takfiri terrorists as well as monitoring US warships in the Persian Gulf.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to U.S. aircraft carriers in the Sea of Oman, U.S. bases in Afghanistan, the UAE and Qatar are \u201ceasy meat\u201d for Iranian missiles, says IRGC commander<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179453,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179448\/revisions\/179453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}