Iran unveils video of underground naval base ahead of Trump’s inauguration

The Iranian ayatollah regime released footage on Saturday that it claims shows a covert Iranian subterranean naval base. The released images were reportedly taken in a secret location around 500 meters below the ground close to the Persian Gulf.

The Iranian regime, which frequently and excessively boasts about its military capabilities, claimed that the speedboats in the images are radar-evading Taregh-class models that are capable of launching cruise missiles. 

The disclosed footage showed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) chief General Hossein Salami inspecting the base together with the Iranian naval arm commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri in the footage.

"The massive amount (of equipment) we saw today is a small portion of the power of the revolutionary guard's naval force, developed over the past years," Gen Salami stated.

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“We assure the great nation of Iran that their young people are capable of coming out honorable and victorious from a battle on the seas against enemies big and small," the top Iranian general added in a thinly veiled threat to Israel and the United States, ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. 

It is the second time in January that Tehran has publicly displayed its alleged military capabilities. Earlier this month, Iran showcased an underground arms storage facility where the regime claims it stores “new special missiles.” 

“The enemy thought that our production capacity had been cut off, but the growth rate of our missile capacity is up to date; missiles are really increasing and upgrading their capacity and capabilities every day in terms of quantity, quality, skill, and design,” IRGC Commander Maj.-Gen. Hossein Salami said, referring to the large Israeli aerial strike on Iran’s missile production facilities on Oct. 26. 

Many pundits believe that the Iranian regime’s recent display of military power is a sign of growing concern among the ayatollahs of the incoming Trump administration, which is expected to embrace hawkish policies against Tehran. 

Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, vowed in December that the Trump administration’s Iran policy would be dramatically different than the one embraced by the outgoing Biden administration. 

“You’re going to see a huge shift on Iran,” Waltz told Fox News. “We have to constrain their cash. We have to constrain their oil. We have to go back to maximum pressure, number one, which was working under the first Trump administration,” he added. 

Like Israel, the incoming Trump administration is reportedly concerned that the Iranian regime is dangerously close to acquiring nuclear weapons. 

In a recent interview with Dan Senor who heads the popular podcast Call Me Back, Waltz presented nuclear weapons at the hands of the ayatollahs as an intolerable threat to the Middle East and global peace. 

“If you think the region is unstable, violent, and at war now, imagine it under a nuclear umbrella controlled by Iran,” Waltz warned. 

The ayatollah regime openly calls for the Jewish state’s destruction. 

“We must take this very seriously,” the senior Trump official continued.  “Every American should understand that any kind of nuclear confrontation in the region would be catastrophic for the entire world.” He warned. 

It is currently unclear whether President-elect Trump would consider using military force against Iran. However, the ayatollahs fear that Trump would likely greenlight an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities if deemed necessary and all other options have been exhausted.