Iran Unveils New IRGC Missile City as Officials Tour Underground Site

Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, and Brig. Gen. Seyyed Majid Mousavi, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, visited a newly publicized underground “missile city” on Tuesday.

State media said the facility belongs to the Aerospace Force and was unveiled as part of IRGC Aerospace Week. The location was not disclosed, and the claims about what the complex can do have not been independently verified.

Missiles on Display

Tasnim reported that ballistic and cruise missiles and their launchers were displayed during the tour.

Official stills and video released with the visit show the two commanders riding a jeep through a wide underground hall lined with canister launchers, transporter erector launchers and truck-mounted missiles. One sequence shows Mousavi speaking at a podium beneath Aerospace Force banners.

Mehr News quoted Abdollahi as saying, “Advanced missiles will surprise enemies with their battlefield impact.”

The images do not identify missile types by name, and neither Mehr nor Tasnim listed models for the Nov. 10 display.

Production Moved Underground, Tehran Says

IRGC spokesperson Brig. Gen. Hossein Mohebbi had previewed the unveiling on Nov. 7, telling a Tehran briefing that the Aerospace Force had shifted missile and drone production from surface plants into underground “missile production cities.”

“We will not allow the enemy to halt the country’s weapons production and development process, even for a moment,” he said, according to the Tehran Times.

Mohebbi said earlier “missile cities” had been used to store and ready weapons, and that the new underground production sites were meant to keep manufacturing going under bombardment. He claimed adversaries had assumed Iran’s stocks would run out by counting the missiles it fired.

Those production claims were not independently confirmed, and the Nov. 10 footage released so far shows stored missiles, launchers and a command visit rather than a working factory floor.

Wartime Context

Mohebbi also said the Aerospace Force had intercepted and destroyed more than 260 enemy aircraft and aerial vehicles during what he called the U.S.-Israeli war, including F-35, F-16, F-5 and F-18 jets and several types of drones. He said the figure excluded the army and that systems such as THAAD and Patriot had failed against some Iranian attacks. Those battle-damage claims remain unverified.

He added that new “surprises” would be unveiled if a third wave of confrontation began.

The presentation follows months of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian missile infrastructure, a campaign in which Tehran has repeatedly publicized underground sites. Clash Report has reported on how Iran’s missile arsenal has remained resilient under bombardment and on U.S. assessments that much of that force is still intact. A week earlier, Iranian media separately aired IRGC Navy footage of naval missile tunnels in the south, a different service and site from the Aerospace Force complex shown on Tuesday.