Saturday, January 11, 2025

Tehran unveils underground weapons facility aimed at making new missiles


Iran released footage unveiling the underground weapons storage facility it used in previous attacks against Israel, which it claims holds “new special missiles, Iranian semi-state official media site Tasnim reported at the end of December.

Footage of the facility was later released on IRIB, displaying Tehran officials IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami and Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh touring the facility. 

Hajizadeh described the facility as a “dormant volcano” days before Salami announced the IRGC’s plans to develop the “new special missiles.” Among the underground facility’s arsenal is reportedly a number of Qadr missiles - a type of Iranian long-range surface-to-surface missile first revealed in 2007, according to the Alma Research and education Center.   (Read More)