Tehran: – Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) revealed information regarding the underground missile base near the Strait of Hormuz. Senior officials of IRGC announced that these missiles could sink enemy warships. At the same time, IRGC held war exercises with 700 patrol vessels of different sizes and speedboats. The western media claim that these Iranian movements are a warning to the foreign tankers, freight ships and the US warships in the region.
General Hossein Salami, the chief of the IRGC, invited the Iranian journalists to the new underground missile base. The concerned base is near the Strait of Hormuz. General Salami informed that more such bases are there in this sector. But General Salami did not reveal the details of these underground bases. The Iranian media also did not disclose the location of the underground base, in their reports.
General Salami said that there was a stockpile of the missile on these bases. General Salami said that Iran had built these bases for the security of its coastline and its sovereignty. He clarified that missiles capable of precisely hitting a target hundreds of kilometres away are also there at these bases. These military bases even have the truck-mounted missiles. The Iranian navy and the Basij paramilitary force had organised the war exercises. More than 700 patrol vessels and speedboats participated in the exercises. The United States has despatched its aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz, to the Persian Gulf. The nuclear submarine USS Georgia also is deployed in the same sector. In this scenario, Iran is trying to deliver a message to the United States, by holding the war exercises and revealing the underground missile bases, that the repercussions of an attack on Iran will be horrendous.
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