{"id":229629,"date":"2021-03-17T08:32:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229629"},"modified":"2021-03-18T06:49:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:49:19","slug":"iran-shows-off-new-missile-city-with-rows-of-ballistic-rockets-stashed-in-an-underground-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229629","title":{"rendered":"Iran shows off new &#8216;missile city&#8217; with rows of ballistic rockets stashed in an underground depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami visited the new missile base and footage broadcast by state TV showed rows of missiles stashed at the facility\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>No location was given for the base, but last year the Guards claimed they had built a number of underground &#8216;missile cities&#8217; along the Gulf coastline\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Salami bragged that it is only a &#8216;small section&#8217; of Iran&#8217;s &#8216;great and expansive&#8217; missiles\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tim Stickings \u2013 Mail Online March 16, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Iran has showed off\u00a0what it says is a new high-tech &#8216;missile city&#8217; with an underground stash of rockets operated by its Revolutionary Guards.<\/p>\n<p>The base was inspected by Guards commander Hossein Salami who boasted that it makes up only a &#8216;small section of the great and expansive missile capability&#8217; possessed by Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Footage broadcast by state TV showed rows of missiles stashed in a depot at the underground base, while the head of the Guards&#8217; naval unit said the site was equipped to detect enemy signals.<\/p>\n<p>The report claimed the base&#8217;s &#8216;electronic warfare equipment&#8217; included radar, monitoring, simulation and disruption systems.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_229631\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Missile-launchers-at-Irans-recently-unvieled-missile-city-thought-to-be-located-on-or-near-the-Persian-Gulf-coastline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229631\" class=\"wp-image-229631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Missile-launchers-at-Irans-recently-unvieled-missile-city-thought-to-be-located-on-or-near-the-Persian-Gulf-coastline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Missile-launchers-at-Irans-recently-unvieled-missile-city-thought-to-be-located-on-or-near-the-Persian-Gulf-coastline.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Missile-launchers-at-Irans-recently-unvieled-missile-city-thought-to-be-located-on-or-near-the-Persian-Gulf-coastline-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-229631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Missile launchers at Irans recently unvieled &#8216;missile city&#8217;, which is thought to be located on or near the Persian Gulf coastline. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iran has one of the biggest missile programmes in the Middle East and regularly boasts of technological advances in its armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>No location was given for the base, but last year the Guards claimed they had built a number of underground &#8216;missile cities&#8217; along the Gulf coastline.<\/p>\n<p>General Salami &#8211; who succeeded the late Qassem Soleimani after his death in a US drone strike last January &#8211; bragged that the cruise and ballistic missiles would boost the strength of the Guards&#8217; naval forces.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran claims to have missiles that can travel as far as 1,200 miles placing much of the Middle East, including Israel, within range.<\/p>\n<p>Following Soleimani&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths and attempted cover-up turned the initial wave of public support for the Iranian regime into several days of angry protests.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9367841\/Iran-shows-missile-city-rows-ballistic-rockets-underground-depot.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kdj37-jLEfA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The location of the most recent Iranian missile facility was not revealed but it is thought to be on or near the coast of the Persian Gulf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":229630,"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-229629","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\/229629","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=229629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229634,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229629\/revisions\/229634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}