The base is located 1,640 feet (500 meters) underground, according to BBC World journalist Mehrzad Kohanrouz. The first media images of a subterranean Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps rocket base come only three days after Iran tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile.
Iranian missile baseTwitterAn Iranian missile base 500 meters underground.
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"The Emad missile is able to strike targets with a high level of precision" and destroy them, the state news agency IRNA quoted Hossein Dehghan, the Iranian defense minister, as saying.
The footage of the Iranian missile base shows long tunnels packed with missiles, hardware, and numerous Iranian soldiers. The tunnel shown on Iranian TV is only one of many such bases throughout Iran, Iranian Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC's aerospace division, said.