IRGC unveils first strategic subterranean storage installation as promoting combat readiness in face of threats

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) unveiled a new strategic underground storage facility built on the shores of Iran’s southern waters, housing a large fleet of fast attack craft and other vessels.

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Date: 18 January 2025 - 23:08

TABNAK, Jan 18: IRGC Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami and Commander of the IRGC Navy Rear Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri were present in the unveiling ceremony held on Saturday.

In comments during the visit to the facility, the IRGC chief stated that the installation accommodates a considerable number of homegrown Iranian fast attack craft in addition to vessels equipped with torpedo launch systems and mine laying features.

He stated that the subterranean naval facility represents only a small fraction of the IRGC Navy’s capabilities.

Major General Salami added that the IRGC Navy is continuously enhancing its combat readiness and defense capabilities, emphasizing that the vessels and the missile systems fitted in them add to the combat capabilities of numerous domestically developed craft that are currently patrolling the Persian Gulf waters to defend Iran’s sovereignty and maritime borders.

In addition to these vessels and missile launchers, other systems are deployed on the islands and shores of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, and they are ready to carry out various missions, the IRGC chief commander pointed out.

“By God's grace, significant progress has been made in the IRGC Navy over the past years, both in terms of quantity and quality of the force's offensive systems.” Major General Salami continued.

He stated that the operational range of vessels and the optimum speed they can cruise, the range of missiles they are furnished with, as well as their pin-point accuracy and destructive power, have all increased dramatically.

The IRGC Navy is now capable of fighting a war from both close and faraway ranges, and can track multiple layers of defense offensively and strategically, Major General Hossein Salami stated.

He said indigenous capabilities can vigorously and triumphantly face up to small and implacable enemies in seas, irrespective of their firepower.

Iranian Armed Forces, including the IRGC and the country’s Army, have been continuously enhancing their military hardware and combat readiness in line with the directives of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

The forces have vowed to defend the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of the threats by the Iranian nation’s enemies.

The Islamic Republic launched some 200 missiles at the Israeli entity’s military, and espionage and intelligence bases all over the occupied territories on October 1 as part of Operation True Promise II.

The operation came in response to the regime’s assassinations of senior leaders of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance and a senior IRGC commander.

In the early hours of October 26, Israel targeted two Iranian border provinces, Ilam and Khuzestan, as well as Tehran. The country’s integrated air defense system successfully intercepted and countered the aggression.

Iran has said it will respond to the recent Israeli act of aggression against the country and will not abandon its rights.