An Iranian military commander said that his country has detailed contingency plans to strike nearly three dozen U.S. military bases in the region should Iran be attacked, local media reported Wednesday.
Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
Aerospace Force, told reporters the U.S. has 35 bases around Iran and
all are "within the reach of our missiles" and could be hit "in the
early minutes after an attack," according to an English-language report
from Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency. The bases were no threat but instead an "opportunity" for the Iranian military, Hajizadeh said last month, according to Fars.
Hajizadeh's claims come as the IRGC conducts a major military exercise
in which it has fired a barrage of missiles at "mock enemy bases" set
up in the Iranian desert. Another IRGC commander, Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami,
told reporters Tuesday the main aim of the drill "was to demonstrate
the Iranian nation's political resolve to defend [its] vital values and
national interests," according to Iran's state-run Press TV.
Press TV paraphrased Salami's description of the drills as a "firm
response to those who threaten Iran with the option of military action."
Culled from abcnews.com
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