{"id":183458,"date":"2019-02-08T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T09:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183458"},"modified":"2019-02-12T06:13:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:13:58","slug":"iran-unveils-underground-ballistic-missile-plant-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183458","title":{"rendered":"Iran unveils underground ballistic missile plant for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 Feb 7, 2019<\/h1>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; display: inline-block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" 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width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Iran has unveiled an underground plant manufacturing precision ballistic missiles for the Aerospace Division of its Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cUnveiling this missile production city deep underground is an answer to the idle talk made by the Westerners, who assume they can restrict us and dissuade us from [pursuing] our long-term goals by means of threats and sanctions,\u201d Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the IRGC\u2019s chief commander, said during the unveiling ceremony on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The ceremony, which was joined by the commander of the IRGC\u2019s Aerospace Division, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, also featured the inauguration of a smart surface-to-surface missile dubbed Dezfoul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cToday, the mass production of advanced precision and smart missiles became a reality within the IRGC\u2019s aerospace force,\u201d Jafari hailed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Iran\u2019s defense program not open to negotiation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Elsewhere in his remarks, Jafari said that Iran\u2019s defense might was in line with the country\u2019s deterrence doctrine and was by no means open to negotiations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIran\u2019s defensive capability is deterrent [in nature] and in line with preserving its national security, and it cannot be subjected to any transaction or negotiation,\u201d the commander asserted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He said the country declares possession of full defensive might on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the victory of its Islamic Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Jafari also especially addressed European countries\u2019 demands from the country to start negotiations over its missile program before they the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) comes into force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">INSTEX is a non-dollar payment mechanism, which European countries have announced to safeguard trade with Iran in the face of the United States\u2019 sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cToday, the Europeans are talking of imposing restrictions and sanctions on our defensive capability, while egregiously, their offensive capability is being used to attack the oppressed and innocent people throughout the world,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, we proudly enhance our defensive capability and are not afraid of anything,\u201d the commander stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National security a red line<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hajizadeh, meanwhile, described national security as the Iranian Armed Forces\u2019 red line, saying the Dezfoul missile was the latest outcome of the Aerospace Division\u2019s research activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Describing the projectile\u2019s features, he compared the success achieved through its production to that of the Zolfaqar ballistic missile, whose mass production the country began in September 2016. However, Dezfoul\u2019s range reaches 1,000 kilometers, 300 kilometers above Zolfaqar, and its destructive capability is twice the latter\u2019s \u201cgiven the special materials used in its warhead,\u201d the commander said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_183467\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dezful-missile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183467\" class=\"wp-image-183467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dezful-missile.jpg\" alt=\"Dezful missile\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dezful-missile.jpg 991w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dezful-missile-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-183467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dezful missile. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hajizadeh also addressed European countries\u2019 recent comments about Iran\u2019s missile might.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Those comments included France\u2019s calling on Iran last month to \u201cimmediately cease all ballistic missile-related activities designed to carry nuclear weapons, including tests using ballistic missile technology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iranian authorities have invariably asserted that the country\u2019s missile program has not been established for non-conventional purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The commander reminded that European countries had provided various forms of arms support to the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during his 1980-1988 invasion of Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThey should be answerable for their support for Saddam and crimes against the Iranian nation,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cWe do not trust the Europeans, and it is better for them not to sacrifice themselves for [US President Donald] Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He was apparently referring to European countries\u2019 echoing Washington\u2019s stance concerning the Islamic Republic and their trying to similarly exercise pressure on Tehran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/02\/07\/587967\/Iran-unveils-underground-ballistic-missile-plant-IRGC-Europe-United-States\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran\u2019s defiant response to Western calls for it to curb its missile development program: Iran\u2019s defence capability are not open to negotiation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":183461,"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-183458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183458","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=183458"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183468,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183458\/revisions\/183468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}