(JNi.media) Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force, announced this week Iran’s plans to replace its solid and liquid fuel long-range missiles with a new generation next year, FARS reported. Hajizadeh said on Wednesday that “a new and advanced generation of liquid and solid fuel long-range missiles will replace the current productions next year.”
Hajizadeh said that Iran is now designing and building different types of long-range, mid-range and short-range missiles, adding, “We are not concerned even an iota about the enemies’ new and most advanced generation of satellites and espionage and offensive devices and equipment.”
“The missiles in various ranges are mounted on the launchers in all bases and [are] ready to be launched,” Hajizadeh said, while the FARS video showed an underground facility which, according to Hajizadeh, was only one of “numerous missile bases” scattered across the country.
Noting that all US military bases in the Middle East are within the range of the IRGC’s missiles, Hajizadeh insisted that Iran will never initiate a war, but warned that “any mistake by the enemies will trigger eruption of missiles from bases deep under the ground like eruptions of volcano which will destroy the enemy.”
The release of the new footage came a few days after Iran reported test-firing a new generation of long-range ballistic missiles. The test was in violation of the UNSC sanctions, but not, as the US Administration insisted, in violation of the nuclear agreement.