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2025-01-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran unveils new underground naval base in Persian Gulf amid tension with US, Israel
[IsraelTimes] State TV says base is ‘built at depth of 500 meters,’ contains vessels with long-range missiles capable of ‘destroying US warships’; Reveal comes days before Trump takes office

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
unveiled an underground naval missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Saturday, state TV said, two days before the start of US President-elect Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s second term in the White House.

It was unveiled at a time when tension with Washington is widely expected to rise. Iranian leaders are concerned that Trump might empower Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, while tightening US sanctions on its oil industry.

During his first term, Trump pursued a policy of "maximum pressure" against Iran, abandoning a landmark nuclear agreement and reimposing sweeping sanctions.

Trump also oversaw the killing of a top Revolutionary Guards general, Qasem Soleimani, in a dronezap on Iraq.

State television showed Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps chief General Hossein Salami visiting the secret base during war games. He said it was one of several built underground for vessels capable of launching long-range missiles and carry out distant warfare.

"We assure the great nation of Iran that their young people are capable of coming out honorable and victorious from a battle on the seas against enemies big and small," Salami said.

State television said the base was built at a depth of 500 meters (1,650 feet) somewhere in the Gulf, showed tunnels with long rows of what it said were a new version of Taregh-class radar-evading speedboats which can launch cruise missiles, and said that some of the vessels were "capable of destroying US warships and destroyers".

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Earlier this month, Iran started military exercises that are due to last two months and have already included war games in which the Revolutionary Guards defended nuclear installations in Natanz against mock attacks by missiles and drones.

Iran, which says its ballistic missiles are an important deterrent and retaliatory force against the US and Israel, has in the past unveiled several "missile cities," underground missile production facilities with tunnels large enough to hold large trucks and multiple production areas.

Tehran maintains that its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes and denies any intention to develop atomic weapons. In recent years, however, it has increased its manufacturing of enriched uranium, and it is the only non-nuclear weapons state to possess uranium enriched to 60 percent, according to nuclear watchdog the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.

That level is well on the way to the 90 percent enrichment required for an atomic bomb.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-19 2025-01-19 00:23|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 sheesh, all that needs to be done is open a couple "doors."

Find one of the seaway doors and drop a bunker buster on it followed by a MOAB FAE.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-01-19 05:50||   2025-01-19 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 500 meters, huh? So it's also underwater...
Posted by ed in texas 2025-01-19 08:36||   2025-01-19 08:36|| Front Page Top

#3 ^^ Probably in the side of a cliff or something.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-01-19 09:56||   2025-01-19 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Or in an inactive volcano. I seen dis movie
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-19 10:51||   2025-01-19 10:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Tunnels in a earthquake prone zone. Sounds like a little fracking is in order.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-19 12:07||   2025-01-19 12:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Put it on the list.
Posted by Mercutio 2025-01-19 12:26||   2025-01-19 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Release the Kraken!!
Posted by alanc 2025-01-19 13:10||   2025-01-19 13:10|| Front Page Top

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