document.cookie = "__adblocker=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT; path=/"; No U.S. military casualties reported after at least 10 rockets target Ain al-Asad base, the same one hit last year in an attack that brought the U.S. and Iran to the brink of war. In 1991, the Iranian armed forces received a number of Iraqi military aircraft being evacuated from the Persian Gulf War of that year; most of which were incorporated into the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. [34], Nevertheless, most of Iran's weapons before the Islamic revolution were imported from the United States and Europe. do business with Iran. d.setTime(d.getTime() + 60 * 60 * 24 * 2 * 1000); The report said that the new Iranian compound, dubbed Imam Ali and situated on the Syria-Iraq border, is being built from scratch by the Al-Quds forces and its construction was approved by top Tehran leaders. Tehran Air Force Training Center (Damavand Avenue), Martyr Hemmat Ravansar (Code 185: Kermanshah Martyrs Corps Ground Forces), Rasht Anzali Road - Hasan Rood - facing the Amir Salar Restaurant, Karaj - Kilometers 28th Tehran - Khatam Alaniba Town - After Poldi Fardis Karaj - Next to Jahanazar Park [7] N35.776667, E51.047222, Police Command - (Sari - Army Street - next to the Public Prosecutor's Office), Tehran Shariati avenue Teheran South Marvdasht Street, Distance to Kerman is about 15 km N30.187778, E56.827500, Special Karaj detachment of Mahdasht road (probably the same martyr Chamran facing Qezelhasar Prison), Known as 06 So far, so good! According to Juan Cole, Iran has never launched an "aggressive war" in modern history, and its leadership adheres to a doctrine of "no first strike". N31.257055, E48.835607, One kilometer higher than Marzan Abad's three roads N36.453889, E51.287778, Meshgin City - Imam Khomeini Street N38.394167, E47.671944, Hamadan Khatamalan Bay Defense Base - Battle Ground Coordinates: N35.199837, E48.677627, (Apparently with code 123 one) (Transferred to code 62 of Shirvans), Center for Duty Training and Martyrs of Semnan Square, Semnan Air Defense (Defense of Khatamul Ban Bay Base) Semnan city Standard square towards Sarvak road 33 km towards Hosseinyan, air defense Iran has fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq that house US troops, in retaliation for the airstrike that killed a top Iranian general days earlier.. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the strikes were a “slap in the face” to the US. In 1973, the Iran Electronics Industries (IEI) was established. From 2003, there have been repeated US and British allegations that Iranian forces have been covertly involved in the Iraq War. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, an elite wing of the Iranian military with immense political and economic power, said in a statement that the attacks on Iraqi bases … Revolutionary Iran was taken by surprise by the Iraqi invasion that began the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988. The U.S. military is exploring the possibility of using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and additional two airfields in the kingdom amid heightened tensions with Iran the military said Tuesday. Iran's naval bases are located in two regions: the Persian Gulf and Oman and the Caspian Sea. Under their command, Iran's military industry was enormously expanded, and with the Ministry of Defense pouring investment into the missile industry, Iran soon accumulated a vast arsenal of missiles. [24][25][26][27][28] Furthermore, China has accused the United States of having initiated a cyber war against Iran, through websites such as Twitter and YouTube and employing a hacker brigade for the purpose of fomenting unrest in Iran. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. (function(src){var a=document.createElement("script");a.type="text/javascript";a.async=true;a.src=src;var b=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b)})("//experience.tinypass.com/xbuilder/experience/load?aid=bYdYZQml5V"); Muhammad-i-Islami, the minister of roads and urban planning, announced 25 June 2019 that, with the order of the leader of the Islamic Republic, 25 barracks will leave the cities of Iran. [32] Niloufar Mirage (distance from Kermanshah 20 km). On 4 December 2011, an American RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was captured by Iranian forces near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. On April 18, 1988, the US retaliated for the Iranian mining of the USS Samuel B. Roberts in Operation Praying Mantis. }, Page last modified: [39], In recent years, official announcements have highlighted the development of weapons such as the Fajr-3 (MIRV), Hoot, Kowsar, Fateh-110, Shahab-3 missile systems and a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles, at least one of which Israel claims has been used to spy on its territory. Map of major US bases within close proximity to Iran, in addition to other NATO military sites near the Islamic Republic. Iran hits US targets in Iraq: Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at Iraqi military bases housing US troops, in retaliation for the US killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani. Iran's attack targeted at least two military bases in Iraq. Footage broadcast on Iranian TV showed one of the biggest - a heavily fortified underground military base constructed with reinforced concrete and packed with rockets. Kaveh Farrokh, Iran at War: 1500–1988, Osprey Hardcover, released May 24, 2011; This page was last edited on 7 March 2021, at 19:18. [33] The company was set up in a first attempt to organize the assembly and repair of foreign-delivered weapons. Iran's military was described in 2015 as the Middle East's "most powerful military force" by retired US General and former CENTCOM commander John Abizaid.[5]. [46] Iran has advanced biological and genetic engineering research programs supporting an industry that produces vaccines for both domestic use and export. "true" : "false") + "; expires=" + d.toUTCString() + "; path=/"; script.setAttribute("async", true); Still, the United States continued to sell large amounts of weapons to Iran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Borderline Birjand road Zahedan - 18 km from Birjand N32.792011, E59.380452, Km 4 road Khomein - after university town. [45], Iran ratified the Biological Weapons Convention in 1973. Iran spent $10 billion between 1989 and 1992 on arms. N34.048666, E49.812350, East of Isfahan - Continuing the clear plain - Not reaching the town of Haj Mirzaei The most important one is Camp Victory. Sep. 3, 2019. (Defense of the Khatam-ol-Namba base), Nine Hashemabad Nayin Road Isfahan Distance from Nayin 35 km between Delgosha and Veyj Village (Defense of the Khatam-ol-Namba base) N32.743333, E52.763333, Tahrsar (Defense of the Khatami Taliban Base Aja), [3] Also known as 02 N35.526150, E51.008405, Known as 04 Birjand Road Khosf - 18 km from Birjand (10 km from Khosf) N32.850278, E58.986667, Known as 05 End of Shahid Sayyad Shirazi Blvd. Sattar Air Base: Army: Air force: Tehran: Tehran: Azeri sword 21: Martyr nageh: Army: Air … Iran has nowhere near the amount of foreign military facilities as the US does. Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Iran has produced several domestically developed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which can be used for reconnaissance and combat operations. That makes a total of 2,010,000 military personnel that Iran could mobilize. However, Iran was able to obtain limited amounts of American-made armaments, when it was able to buy American spare parts and weaponry for its armed forces, during the Iran–Contra affair. The operation lasted until 1989. Simultaneously, the Iranian armed forces had to learn to maintain and keep operational, their large stocks of US-built equipment and weaponry without outside help, due to the American-led sanctions. The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says the U.S. military is looking for so-called "fallback" bases in Saudi Arabia to protect forces in the event of raised tensions with Iran. Iranian state television reported "dozens of missiles were fired including Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 missiles. On November 2, 2006, Iran fired unarmed missiles to begin 10 days of military simulations. We have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far! Sep. 3, 2019. Iranstruck back at the United States early on Wednesday for killing its most powerful military commander, firing a barrage of ballistic missiles at two Iraqimilitary bases … [29][30] It has also been reported in early 2010, that two new garrisons for cyberwarfare have been established at Zanjan and Isfahan. In 2007, Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces also took prisoner Royal Navy personnel when a boarding party from HMS Cornwall was seized in the waters between Iran and Iraq, in the Persian Gulf. At the same time, the main Iranian forces are concentrated in the south of the country. Garrison 106 The Guards of the Golestan Tenth: Special for the Cadres Crossroad Right Guards: For Soldiers. The US military is expanding its military operations in Saudi Arabia amid heightened tensions with Iran, striking an initial agreement with the kingdom to … At first, deliveries came via Israel and later, from the US. Later, Iran began establishing its own armaments industry; its efforts in this remained largely unrecognised internationally, until recently. [32] During this conflict, there were several conflicts against the United States. The U.S. military is exploring the possibility of using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and additional two airfields in the kingdom amid heightened tensions with Iran, the military said Tuesday. script.setAttribute("src", "//www.npttech.com/advertising.js"); [7] The country's military budget is the lowest per capita in the Persian Gulf region besides the UAE. Iranian troops and civilians suffered tens of thousands of casualties from Iraqi chemical weapons during the 1980-88 Iran–Iraq War. In 2012, it was announced that Iran's Quds Force is operating inside Syria providing the government of Bashar al-Assad with intelligence and direction against rebel opposition. “In Operation Martyr Soleimani in the early hours of Wednesday, tens of ground-to-ground missiles were fired at the U.S. base and successfully pounded Ain al-Asad Base,” the IRGC said in an official statement. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. Over the past ten years, 19 barracks have left the big cities, whose land value in the year 1397 was estimated at ten trillion tomans. document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(script); script.setAttribute("onerror", "setNptTechAdblockerCookie(true);"); N32.595822, E51.785045, 15 km of Mahshahr road after the Palms Road var d = new Date(); Tabuk is home to King Faisal Air Base, while Taif is home to King Fahd Air Base. [47], In 2013, Iran was reported to supply money, equipment, technological expertise and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to the Syrian government and Hezbollah during the Syrian civil war, and to the Iraqi government and its state-sponsored organizations the Popular Mobilization Forces, and Peshmerga during War on ISIL. 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"The law on the sale and transfer of barracks and other places of armed forces outside the city limits" has been approved by the parliament in November 2009, but in the past ten years, its implementation has been faced with many problems in Tehran. It has been reported that Iran is one of the five countries that has a cyber-army capable of conducting cyber-warfare operations. [34] The Iranian Defense Industries Organization was the first to succeed in taking a step into what could be called a military industry by reverse engineering Soviet RPG-7, BM-21, and SAM-7 missiles in 1979. var setNptTechAdblockerCookie = function(adblocker) { This alarmed the United States Congress, which strengthened a 1968 law on arms exports in 1976 and renamed it the Arms Export Control Act. Even today, more than twenty-four years after the end of the Iran–Iraq War, about 30,000 Iranians are still suffering and dying from the effects of chemical weapons employed by Iraq during the war. In 2016, Revolutionary Guard forces captured US Navy personnel when their boats entered Iranian territorial waters off the coast of Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. var script = document.createElement("script"); Iran also dedicated underground ballistic missile programs. The Iranian military is building a new military base in Syria, Fox News reported on Tuesday, citing multiple Western intelligence sources. 15 km north of Dezful (apparently with code 265 one), Khosroud Village - Ten Straits of the West Bank (distance from Babylon about 20 km), (This code and 175 are apparently the same) - Dezful's fourth batting base, (Apparently with code 23 one) (Transferred to code 62 of Shirvans), Highway of the airport (Shahid Ardestani) Eighth Shahid Beheshti Isfahan - Distance to Kaveh 16 km (apparently with code 148 is one), Probably the same barrage of the martyr Iraj Rostami Located in Shiraz Silk Road N29.632778, E52.545556. Khaosh Zahedan Road - 5 km after the entrance to the city, Crossroad of Airborne and Violet in Shiraz Or Sayyakh Darangoon (Shiraz-Kazeroun Road), Group 22 Artillery N31.938889, E51.820833, 16th Armored Division N36.288611, E50.028056, 23rd Division of Parandak N35.505278, E51.014444, Division 30 (not in the training garrison), Division 58 (Apparently this garrison is not merely intended for the unit and not educational) N36.710278, E55.301944, Preliminary combat N34.484838, E47.005529, Quchan Shirvan Road - 6 km from Shirvana Teacher's College - 10 km to the north Of course, this barracks is also known as Shahid Beheshti. Iran is a major military power in the Middle East, with an estimated 534,000 active personnel in the army, navy, air force and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The complex includes 10 bases – Victory Fuel Point, Slayer, Striker, Cropper, Liberty, Radwaniyah Palace, Dublin, Sather Air Base, Logistics Base Seitz and Victory. The need to manage the treatment of such a large number of casualties has placed Iran's medical specialists in the forefront of the development of effective treatment regimens for chemical weapons victims, and particularly for those suffering from exposure to mustard gas. Between 1971 and 1975, the Shah went on a buying spree, ordering $8 billion in weapons from the United States alone. Because of economic sanctions and a weapons embargo put on Iran by the United States, it was forced to rely on its domestic arms industry for weapons and spare parts, since there were very few countries willing to Later, Iran began establishing its own armaments industry; its efforts in this remained largely unrecognised internationally, until recently. Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. The Iranian Armed Forces are numerically the largest and arguably the most powerful in the Middle East. Iran started a major campaign to produce and stockpile chemical weapons after a truce was agreed with Iraq after 1980-88 Iran–Iraq War. Yazd, km 22 of Khezr Abad Road. The missiles targeted at least two Iraqi military bases hosting U.S. and coalition forces, the Department of Defense said in a statement. Iran ordered weapons designed to prevent other states' naval vessels from accessing the sea, including marines and long-range Soviet planes capable of attacking aircraft carriers.[6]. This code is the Sahib Al-Zaman Corps Training Center. Iranian experts have made some changes to Shahab-3 missiles installing cluster warheads in them with the capacity to carry 1,400 bombs." They were released thirteen days later. [1] All branches of the armed forces fall under the command of General Staff of Armed Forces. @media only screen and (min-device-width : 320px) and (max-device-width : 480px) { Given the significance of General Soleimani and the passions that his killing aroused, Iran's military strike against US bases in Iraq was a modest response. [2], Under the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran's military industry was limited to assembly of foreign weapons. (This code and 115 seemingly one) - Dezful's fourth batting base. [35], After the Islamic revolution, Iran found itself severely isolated and lacking technological expertise. Anthony H. Cordesman, Iran's Military Forces in Transition: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction, 'Iranian exercise reveals flaws in air defences,'. [37][38] Iran is also producing its own submarines. It's apparently the same (the defense of the Khatamulan Bayan Aja). By the late Qajar dynasty, Persia formed the world's first unified military consisting of the Ground, Naval and Air Forces. In December 2012, Iran stated it had captured an American ScanEagle UAV that violated its airspace over the Persian Gulf. The Gulf Arab states are home to a vast array of American military bases, the legacy of the 1991 Gulf War that saw U.S.-allied forces expel Iraq from Kuwait, and the later 2001 invasion of …