Video: Iran's Missile Program Revealed With Rare Pictures Of Secret Underground Base

By R. Siva Kumar - 16 Oct '15 10:15AM

There is a secret underground missile base 500 metres under the mountains of Iran. Filled with military hardware, the base has worked out to be "hundreds of meters long and 10 meters high".

The aerospace division of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards brought out the pictures Wednesday of the tunnel, said HNGN. The base is among the many in Iran.

"The Islamic republic's long-range missile bases are stationed and ready under the high mountains in all the country's provinces and cities," said Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Guards' aerospace division, reports CNN.

"This is a sample of our massive missile bases. A new and advanced generation of long-range liquid- and solid-fuel missiles will start to replace existing weapons next year," he added.

The footage was released merely a few days after Iran undertook testing of three long-range ballistic missiles, violating the limitations of the UN.

"We've got strong indications that those missile tests did violate a UN Security Council resolution that pertain to Iran's ballistic missile activities," White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday.

"Unfortunately, that's not new. We have seen Iran almost serially violate the international community's concerns about their ballistic missile program," he added.