Iran’s underground ‘Missile City’ that could test Iron Dome to its limits

As Iran launches drone strikes across the Middle East, their so-called ‘Missile City’ sitting deep beneath the earth sits ready and waiting.

Footage from Iranian state media gives a rare glimpse of the fortified underground complex – one of the largest such facilities in the Islamic Republic.

A 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.

The tunnels are lined with thousands of precision-guided missiles, state media claimed.

KheibarShekan (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.

Set 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.

Two 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.

They were both killed in an Israeli strike in June 2025.

Bagheri is first seen walking over an Israeli flag painted on the floor before getting on the back of a military vehicle.

Addressing 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’

‘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.’

Operation 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.

Bagheri 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.

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