Open-source reports indicate Iranian Revolutionary Guards moving heavy weapons across multiple provinces and underground missile facilities in major military readiness operation. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has begun a broad military dispersal operation across multiple provinces, relocating heavy weapons systems and conducting unusual movements at underground missile facilities, according to open-source reporting Saturday.
Documented movements of missile launchers, unmanned aerial vehicle trucks, and tactical military vehicles have been reported in Shiraz, Abadan, Tehran, Khorramabad, Kermanshah, Isfahan, Tabriz, Qom, and other locations throughout Iran, per sources tracking military developments. The operations are being characterized as part of a major defensive readiness exercise in response to sustained American military pressure. According to Iranian sources cited in regional reporting, the IRGC is emphasizing a retaliatory deterrent posture. One source attributed statements warning that should the United States target Iranian energy infrastructure, Israel would face destruction, though the context and official status of such statements remained unconfirmed.
The dispersal operations include reported unusual activity at Iran's network of underground missile cities—hardened subterranean facilities carved into mountainous terrain that house elements of Iran's ballistic missile arsenal. These installations, buried hundreds of meters deep in granite formations, have been a focus of U.S. and Israeli air campaigns since Operation Epic Fury began in February 2026, but intelligence assessments indicate they retain significant operational capability despite strikes. The Yazd base, one of Iran's major underground facilities, is buried approximately 500 meters inside a mountain, making it difficult for conventional bunker-busting munitions to penetrate. The facilities feature compartmentalized tunnels, blast-resistant doors, multiple entrances and exits, and some decoy openings, allowing operations to continue even if access points are struck. (Read More)
