Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Friday shared a video unveiling the underground missile and drone complexes across the country. In the video, Tehran claimed that it is manufacturing a ’new special missile’
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Iranian state TV shows what it says is an underground missile storage facility. Screengrab
Amid the ongoing tension in West Asia, Iran has unveiled an underground missile storage facility. On Friday, Tehran announced that it is manufacturing “new special missiles,” Tasnim News reported. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shared a video showing the security forces’ Commander Major General Hossein Salami and Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh. The latter went on to describe the site as a “dormant volcano”.
According to the Iranian news outlet, part of Iran’s operations against Israel in October and April were carried out using this underground missile base. While addressing an event in Iran’s southwestern city of Abadan on Friday, Salami also announced that the IRGC Aerospace Force is developing “new special missiles.”
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Iran has unveiled a massive new Underground Missile City
Thousands of Ballistic Missiles are stored deep inside a Mountain, footage shows just 10% of the entire underground missile complex pic.twitter.com/P9rEd5MLiF
— Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) January 10, 2025
The announcement came days after General Ali Mohammad Naeini warned that Iran would be holding new drills and war games this month that would reveal “missile and drone cities”. Naeini predicted that the revelation would include an underground city which would store missiles and another facility accommodating vessels in the south of Iran, Tasnim News reported.
Iran boasts its military might
With the release of the recent video, many believe that Iran is aiming to project that it has not lost power in the region as the tensions continue to escalate. However, in a few months, Tehran witnessed several setbacks. Iranian-backed forces in Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen