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Tehran — the Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran is conducting a series of 10 days of tests of missiles, including launching medium-range missiles on targets in the sea, and revealed a previously secret network of underground missile silos, Iranian State media reported Tuesday.
The test are a part of maneuvers scheduled to strengthen Iran's military doctrine of "asymmetric warfare", in which revolutionary guards would counterstrikes in case of an attack against Iran by the United States and Israel. The exercise is intended to send a message of "peace and friendship" in regional countries, State media reported.
"America made things easier for us to locate its garrisons and camps in neighbouring countries," Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander aerospace forces the guards, said the Islamic Republic News Agency. "We can attack all Americans in the region of these missiles."
In addition to bases in neighboring Afghanistan and in Iraq, the US Army has a presence in Bahrain and Qatar, and a group of carriers regularly plies the waters of the Persian Gulf.
But Iran has no plans to attack anyone, commanders told reporters.
"Of course not begin any operation, but our reactions will be exclusively defensive," Brigadier General Hossein Salami, Deputy Commander of the Revolutionary Guard, says the semiofficial news agency Fars. "My fingers are still triggers. Only the number of triggers is increased. "
Salami said that Iran is tracking and observing the movements of his "enemies" of the region. "We have the power to execute the budget and swift retaliatory mass missions on all enemy targets," salame said.
On Monday, State television aired a report on a visit to an underground missile site containing Iran's most powerful rocket, the Shahab-3. The crew was flying in a private jet to an unknown destination in Iran, then headed to the site for hours in a windowless van, according to the report.
State television cited unidentified colonels as saying that Iran began construction of a network of these silos across the nation 15 years ago.
"All the silos of launching missiles are programmed and ready to launch against pre-programmed targets," one of the colonels said, stressing that the sites could not be detected by satellites.
During the missile tests are similar in 2008, the revolutionary guards doctored images more of a missile launch when one of the rockets proved to be a real disaster.
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