Important Takeaways:
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a new underground base, reportedly located somewhere on the country’s southern shores. Dubbed ‘missile city’, the facility houses dozens of missile launchers mounted on trucks, according to a video published by the Iranian military on Saturday.
- A two-minute video shows IRGC Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami and Naval Force Chief Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri inspecting the underground network of tunnels where the mobile missile launchers are stationed.
- According to Tangsiri, the base is home to Iran’s Qadr 380 cruise missiles, which can be deployed and launched in under five minutes. These missiles have a range of over 1,000 kilometers and are equipped with anti-jamming systems to counter electronic warfare, IRNA news agency reported.
- The facility showcased on Saturday is the third such base in Iran, according to IRNA. In mid-January, the IRGC Navy unveiled another underground anti-ship missile base along the Persian Gulf’s coastline. A similar facility was previously revealed by the IRGC Air Force on January 10, though its exact location was not disclosed.
- Iran has said that its missile program is a deterrent against adversaries such as the US and Israel. During the inspection on Saturday, Salami stated that the unveiling was intended to prevent Tehran’s enemies from making “miscalculations” that could lead to serious consequences.
- Earlier in January, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi praised the country’s missile program as a crucial factor in deterring foreign threats. “I have said many times and firmly believe that if it weren’t for our missile capabilities, no one would be negotiating with us,” Araghchi said at the time.
- Araghchi argued that the US and its allies only respond to strength, and Iran’s missile power compels them to engage diplomatically rather than resorting to force. His remarks followed heightened tensions between Israel and Iran, which involved a series of long-range strikes between the two nations last year.
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Important Takeaways:
- Israel is bracing for a worst-case scenario that U.S. officials believe could materialize within just hours — the possibility of a direct attack on Israeli soil by Iran in retaliation for a strike almost two weeks ago that killed seven Iranian military officers.
- Two U.S. officials told CBS News that a major Iranian attack against Israel was expected as soon as Friday, possibly to include more than 100 drones and dozens of missiles aimed at military targets inside the country.
- With the Iranian retaliation expected at any time, the U.S. State Department on Thursday warned Americans in Israel not to travel outside major cities, which are better protected from incoming rocket fire by the country’s Iron Dome missile defense system.
- “Whoever harms us, we will harm them,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Thursday as he visited troops at an Israel Defense Forces airbase. “We are prepared… both defensively and offensively.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Iranian enforces open fire on ‘schoolgirls’ as regime prepares for crackdown on Kurdish protesters: report
- Protests against Iran’s Islamist regime have been most aggressive in the northern Kurdish region
- Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) allegedly opened fire on “schoolgirls” chanting anti-regime slogans on Wednesday.
- The IRGC is Iran’s most brutal weapon against protesters outraged at the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the country’s morality police. Unrest has been most prevalent in the Kurdish regions of Iran, and the regime is now preparing for a brutal crackdown on Sanandaj, the region’s capital.
- Regime enforcers have killed hundreds of demonstrators across the country since Amini’s death last month. The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights says IRGC troops killed five and wounded 400 with “machine gun fire and other violence” throughout the northern Kurdish region this week.
- Also a source of outrage is the alleged killing of 17-year-old Nika Shakamari. Iranian police followed her away from a protest where she set fire to her hijab. She was then killed, and authorities claim she fell off of a roof. Family members say her injuries were not consistent with that story, however.
- Iranian authorities sought to conceal news of Shakamari’s death for nine days. Police ultimately removed her body from a morgue and buried it in a rural area against her family’s wishes.
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