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CONCEALED underground in Iran sit secret missile cities armed with terrifying weapons – with Tehran boasting it has added a new “Khaibar-buster” that can strike US bases to its impressive arsenal.
As tensions continue to simmer between Tehran and Washington, Iran has unveiled its terrifying new missile that has a reported 900-mile range in a chilling show of strength.
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State TV reported claims that the missile uses solid fuel, has high accuracy, is manufactured completely domestically, and can defeat missile shield systems.
And its reported range would allow it to reach both US bases in the region as well as targets inside its arch-foe Israel.
Israel’s closest point to Iran is just 620 miles away.
The new missile is called the “Khaibar-buster”, a reference to a Jewish castle overrun by Muslim warriors in the early days of Islam.
Iran already boats missiles that can travel up to 1,250 miles which are holed up in the country’s secret missile cities packed full of ballistic rockets.
Footage previously shared by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Vany in Iran shows one of the underground bunkers crammed full with dozens of both cruise and ballistic missiles.
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The Iranian military said the bunkers have security to protect against electronic war attacks.
Satellite photos show the two alleged sites operated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at Kenesht Canyon and Panj Pelleh.
It is alleged the two missile bases close to the city of Kermanshah in western Iran are linked by a sprawling network of tunnels beneath a mountain.
Pictures allegedly show the guarded complexes with visible tunnels burrowing into hillsides – which are claimed to part of one of Iran’s infamous “missile cities“.
NCRI officials previously told The Sun Online there are likely to be “hundreds” of missiles at the two sites.
The so-called cities are actually gigantic underground bases which are used to store and conceal missiles while they buried beneath up to five layers of concrete designed to fend off enemy strikes.
Mobile missile launcher trucks are believed to be kept in the tunnels – ready to be rolled out to launch their devastating weapons before being swiftly hidden again.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran – a dissident group in exile which advocates regime change – claims the Kenesht Canyon and Panj Pelleh “cities” were used to launch strikes on the US military at two bases in Iraq – at Ayan al-Asad Airbase and Erbil Airbase- in January 2020.
‘STRATEGIC SPOT’
The dissidents described Panj Pelleh as one of the “oldest and most important missile centres” for the IRGC.
Kenesht Canyon is the larger of the two bases and the NCRI claim it provides a “strategic spot” for launching missiles and storing weapons.
It is claimed to have been expanded in 2020 and is under heavy guard, with soldiers on site rotated every two months to prevent any information leaks.
Five hatches are located on the site, which are believed to be used to access the underground tunnel complex.
And there are two large entrances that appear to be large enough for missile launchers to come and go from.
Panj Pellah meanwhile is believed to be a mainly underground complex that spans approximately two miles – and is hidden in a mountainous area.
Two tunnels can be seen in satellite images going into the mountainside – and all these are believed to be connected to the nearby Kenesht Canyon base.
Iran’s extensive missile programme has long been a source of tensions between the nation and the West as they are believed to be in breach of UN sanctions.
Former president Trump burned bridges with Iran when he tore up the so-called nuclear deal which was designed to curb the Islamic Republic’s ambitions for nukes.
It comes as negotiations continue in Vienna to revive Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
Iran, which has long said it does not seek nuclear weapons, insists its missile programme is only a deterrent.
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