Published: 09:36, March 27, 2025
Iran's IRGC unveils new missile base
By Xinhua
This handout photo provided by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website Sepah News on Feb 1, 2025, shows a test launch during the unveiling of the Ghadr-380 naval cruise missile in an undisclosed location in Iran. (PHOTO / AFP)

TEHERAN - Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a new underground missile base.

Belonging to the IRGC's Aerospace Division, the base, dubbed "missile city," was unveiled during a visit by Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Baqeri, and Commander of the IRGC's Aerospace Division Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, according to footage released by the Sepah News, the IRGC's official news outlet, on Tuesday night.

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The narrator speaking on the footage said the facility was one of the IRGC's "hundreds" of missile bases across Iran, "which is home to thousands of homegrown solid- and liquid-fueled precision-guided and network-based ballistic missiles, made by the experts of the IRGC's Aerospace Division."

He listed some of the missiles in the base as Kheybar Shekan, Martyr Haj Qassem, Qadr-H, Sejjil, and Emad. The narrator said the listed missiles were the ones used in the two military operations against Israel on April 13 and Oct 1, 2024.

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Iran has unveiled several underground missile and naval bases since the beginning of 2025.