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  "textContent": "To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nAs Iran launches drone strikes across the Middle East, their so-called ‘Missile City’ sitting deep beneath the earth sits ready and waiting.\n\nFootage from Iranian state media gives a rare glimpse of the fortified underground complex – one of the largest such facilities in the Islamic Republic.\n\nA massive arsenal of drones, with a wall-to-wall hanging depicting the now-dead Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, can be seen with the sound of a ticking clock in the background.\n\nThe tunnels are lined with thousands of precision-guided missiles, state media claimed.\n\nKheibarShekan (900-mile range), Haj Qassem (850-mile range), Ghadr H, (1,240-mile range), Sejjil (1,550-mile range), and Emad (1,050-mile range) are believed to be housed there.\n\nThis is believed to be one of the largest such facilities in the Islamic Republic.\n\nThousands of ballistic missiles are claimed to be housed there\n\nSet to dramatic music, the video, which was released last year, is a propaganda tool in a show of strength after the UK and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, targeting Iran’s Supreme Leader in his Tehran compound.\n\nTwo senior Iranian military figures, chief of staff of the armed forces major general Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, and IRGC aerospace force commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh are shown driving through the undisclosed base.\n\nThey were both killed in an Israeli strike in June 2025.\n\nPeople stand next to an Iranian missile after it fell near Qamishli International Airport today (Picture: Reuters)\n\nA woman makes her way through debris littering a street following airstrikes in central Tehran following US-Israeli strikes (Picture: AFP)\n\nBagheri is first seen walking over an Israeli flag painted on the floor before getting on the back of a military vehicle.\n\nAddressing the facility’s personnel during the tour, he said: ‘Iran’s iron fist is far stronger than before. 10 times stronger than True Promise II’\n\n‘All the [defensive] dimensions that are required for generating a [military] capability that is 10 times [stronger than] the one deployed during Operation True Promise II, has been created.’\n\nOperation True Promise II refers to Iran’s missile retaliatory attack against Israel on April 13, 2024, in which 90 percent of missiles hit their intended targets.\n\nBagheri further noted that the pace at which the republic was developing its defensive might was ‘far faster than the pace of the enemies’, according to Press TV.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,****check our news page**.\n\nComment now Comments  Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source ",
  "title": "Iran’s underground ‘Missile City’ that could test Iron Dome to its limits"
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