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On January 10, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) released footage of what it called an underground “missile city,” claiming that weapon production had ramped up, contrary to Israeli claims.
The video shows IRGC Commander-in-Chief Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami visited an underground missile production facility with tunnels large enough to hold large trucks and multiple production areas.
“Maybe the enemy thought that our production power had stagnated,” he said in the televised speech. “But the growth rate of our missile power” is rising.
Among the weapons shown in the facility were Fattah hypersonic missiles that were used last October in an attack on Israel.
Iranian state-linked media claimed that only 10 percent of the complex underground facility had been shown in the footage.
A day after the unveiling of the facility, Iran held air defense exercises in what appears to be another message to Israel.
“In these exercises… defense systems will practice the fight against air, missile and electronic warfare threats in real battlefield conditions… to protect the country’s skies and sensitive and vital areas,” Iranian state television said.
The exercises were part of two months of frills launched on January 4 that have already included war games in which the elite the IRGC defended key nuclear installations in Natanz against mock attacks by missiles and drones, state media said.
The Iranian military said that new drones and missiles were used in the exercises, without elaborating on the matter.
The unveiling of the underground missile city and the air defense exercise are clear offensive and defensive messages by Iran, not only to Israel but also to the U.S. These messages come amid growing threats from the two allies against the Iranian nuclear program as President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to assume office.
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with iran’s security agreement with russia the independent development of an oreshnik type weapon is likely. the zionists have spent all of their political capitol on their gaza genocide. it will now take an enormous amount of propaganda for the american people to support zionist aggression. the zionists should now beg for peace. israel is becoming indefensible
the main problem is that american people decide nothing. their choice is reduced to : left zionist or right zionist. the last antizionist potus was kennedy. he was killed because he wanted to register the aipac as foreign agent lobby. lee harvey oswald was a puppett and the pupett was silenced by jack leon rubenstein a member of the tribe.
he was catholic like biden and just like biden under catholic president the world is again on the brink of nuclear war .wakey wakey hand off snakey
” the greatest threat to america’s democracy will come from pope’s and princes ” george washington
he knew a bit more about it all than the average joe. imo .
russia will abandon iran when times get hard.
it’s just rubbish iran’s not orthodox
i am bitter gay retired toilet scrubber abandoned by my mulatto ex husband
hahaha. you’re funny .. clueless but funny .
all of that will belong to israel.
russia will abandon iran just like it did syria. north korea too, after they have used them.
i don’t think they can afford to do that. russia and china will prevent that because the alternative is putting the clock back to 1953 with iran as a us vassal with nuclear weapons on its southern border. 90% of iran’s oil goes to china. they can’t afford to lose that. or iran’s role in the brics north-south corridor. russia previously supported us sanctions on iran and refused to supply s300s or finish bushehr in return for a worthless promise from the us (never kept) ……..
…… not to put us missiles on russia’s western border. hopefully they have learnt from the experience. russia and iran supported syria, but you can’t expect them to continue fighting for syria when the syrian army just wouldn’t fight and went home. both offered to send extra forces to syria but assad turned this down.
maybe. it could equally be seen as a desperate effort to cover up iran leadership’s dismal failure to use its arsenal effectively when it mattered. a souffle will not rise twice.
i am bitter retired amerikunt janitor payd 4$ hour shekelstein janitorial services–demoted by my mulatto supervisor
amerikunt mollusks humiliated—they tantrum at south front