{"id":195636,"date":"2019-10-02T06:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T06:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195636"},"modified":"2019-10-04T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:23:48","slug":"general-iran-still-digging-missile-tunnels-24-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195636","title":{"rendered":"General: Iran still digging missile tunnels 24\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tehran Times \u2013 Oct 1, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\"\"<\/a>

Emad missiles delivered to Iranian underground missile facility. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

TEHRAN \u2013 Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the aerospace unit of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has said Iran is still digging missile tunnels 24\/7, thirty five years after it began the project.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the aerospace unit of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe idea behind these [underground] cities dates back to the year 1363 (1984-1985), and in fact the first tunnel was built before the first missile was imported,\u201d Hajizadeh said on Monday in an interview broadcast on state TV, Mehr reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur enemies\u2019 concern is that these capabilities cannot be accessed by them,\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

In January 2016, the TV aired exclusive footage of the IRGC\u2019s deep underground tunnel filled with numerous Emad ballistic missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

The IRGC\u2019s first underground missile facility was unveiled on October 14, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in March 2016, Hajizadeh said, \u201cWe have underground tunnels around the country and under mountains, where we store our missiles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese tunnels cannot be destroyed even if targeted by atomic bombs,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic maintains that its military might poses no threat to other countries, and that its defense doctrine is merely based on deterrence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his Monday remarks, Hajizadeh said only the superpowers of the world have the capability to design and produce precision-guided missiles and fewer than 10 countries in number produce precision-guided missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we are the number one missile power in the region and we are among the 7 to 8 top missile powers in the world,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

He went on to say that Iran\u2019s achievements in the missile technology come while it had no airspace facilities almost 10 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were seeking to buy while they didn\u2019t sell us any equipment,\u201d the top general explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

In August, Iran unveiled a domestically-built missile defense system dubbed \u201cBavar-373\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

The Bavar 373. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Bavar-373 is a mobile missile defense system designed to intercept and destroy incoming hostile targets. The system employs missiles that have a maximum range of 300 kilometers. The system is capable of simultaneously detecting up to 300 targets, tracking 60 targets at once and engaging six targets at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Hassan Rouhani said after the unveiling ceremony that the missile defense system is more powerful than S-300 missile system and is more like S-400.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tensions have soared between Iran and the U.S. in recent months, especially after the U.S. drone downing incident and the drone attacks on Saudi Arabia\u2019s Aramco facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

On June 20, the IRGC\u2019s aerospace unit downed an American RQ-4 Global Hawk drone over the Strait of Hormuz after it violated Iranian airspace. Despite the U.S. claims that the drone had been flying over international waters, Iran put on show the retrieved parts of the drone in its own territorial waters where it was shot down.<\/span><\/p>\n

The drone was shot by homegrown air defense missile system \u201cKhordad-3rd\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

General Hajizadeh said at the time that the intruding drone had received warnings for four times before being shot down.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the incident, IRGC Chief Major General Hossein Salami said the downing of the drone sent a \u201cclear message\u201d to Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe message is that while Tehran is not seeking war it is completely ready to fight if necessary,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

MH\/PA<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The commander of the aerospace unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards says Iran is still digging underground facilities to store its missiles <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-195636","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\/195636","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=195636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195639,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195636\/revisions\/195639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}