Iran reveals new missile base on the Persian Gulf
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) printed pictures of a brand new underground missile base on the coast of the Persian Gulf on Friday, amid growing tensions between the Islamic Republic and the US.
“The base is one of several bases housing the Guards’ Navy’s strategic missiles,” state media quoted IRGC Chief Commander Hossein Salami, relating to the bottom situated someplace within the province of Hormozgan.
“Our logic in defending the territorial integrity, the independence of the country, and the achievements of the Islamic Revolution is strengthening,” Salami stated, in accordance with the nationwide newspaper Mehr News.
Strengthened defensive capabilities
The commander additionally boasted that the brand new Naval Missile Facility held long-range missiles with pin-point precision and “huge destructive power.”
Salami claimed that the bottom would strengthen Iran’s defensive capabilities, particularly towards “the enemy’s electronic warfare equipment.”
Rising tensions between the Islamic Republic and the US got here to a head on Monday when Revolutionary Guards seized a South Korean tanker within the straits of Hormuz.
The relations between the 2 sides have been put underneath additional pressure after President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed heavy sanctions on the nation.
Open hostilities nearly broke out in January 2020 after the assassination of Iran’s high common Qassim Soleimani by a US drone strike in Iraq.
Top Iranian lawmakers have proven a willingness to return to negotiations with President-elect Joe Biden, nevertheless, the nation’s highly effective conservative institution has continued to stoke the flames with a promise to ramp up uranium enrichment.
A warning to Iran’s enemies
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei additionally spoke on Friday in a stay tv broadcast praising the nation’s defensive capabilities.
He claimed that with the power to shoot down drones and hit the US Ain al-Assad air pressure base in Iraq — in response to Soleimani’s loss of life — the nation’s foes must take note of Iran’s potential to militarily defend itself.
The IRGC stated final yr that they’d constructed underground “missile cities” alongside the Gulf shoreline, warning of a “nightmare for Iran’s enemies.”
Salami praised the developments of Iran’s protection methods highlighting the “great progress at the level of target intelligence systems, search systems, as well as missile radar systems.”
