TEHRAN: Iran on Tuesday unveiled a second underground missile storage facility, days after the United States threatened to impose fresh sanctions over the country’s missile program.
The Tasnim News Agency carried photos of parliament speaker Ali Larijani touring the base, which it said housed long-range Emad ballistic missiles and was not the same one the Iranians unveiled in October.
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the Islamic Republic has so many missiles, it doesn’t know where to store them.
“We lack enough space in our stockpiles to house our missiles,” said General Hossein Salami, the Guards’ deputy, as a row with the US over Iran’s ballistic missile program deepened.
“Hundreds of long tunnels are full of missiles ready to fly to protect your integrity, independence and freedom,” he told worshipers in Tehran, promising to never “stop developing our defense deterrent.”
Iranian state television aired in October unprecedented footage of such an underground missile base. (Tasnim News Agency)