Political LEADERS, Iranian military leaders are very fond of missiles. Since the war against Iraq in the 1980s, the one in which their cities were targeted by Saddam Hussein’s bombs, the Iranians understood that the enemy’s vulnerability to bombs could only be countered in one way: by filling the national arsenal with missiles even stronger than those of the enemy.
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Earlier last week the Iranian media relaunched the news that the Iranian “pasdaran” have inaugurated another missile city “capable of guarding naval and ballistic missiles on the shores of the Persian Gulf. The Navy of the Revolutionary Guards Corps has released images and videos showing dozens of naval missiles, trucks ready to be dispersed over the territory to launch their ballistic missiles and other military tools capable of defending the country from an unknown location.
Indeed, Iran periodically reveals information about its “missile cities”: The last time happened on January 9 this year, while a first organized presentation of the kind took place as early as January 2016, when the leaders of the Pasdaran brought the President of the Parliament Ali Larijiani visiting another base, a depot that houses, among others, the “Emad” ballistic missiles, a device capable of flying for 2000 kilometers.
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The Pasdaran leaders themselves admit that “The enemies are well acquainted with some of these bases along the coast of the Persian Gulf and in the Sea of Oman, but they do not have precise details on our activities.” Last Monday the Pasdaran commander-in-chief, the general, was engaged in this latest presentation Hossein Salami, together with the head of the Irgc Navy the admiral Alireza Tangsiri.
Over the years, Iran has acquired a considerable production capacity but also in the use of ballistic missiles and drones, a capacity that in recent months has been used to defend the interests of the country especially in the war in Yemen. Iran has hit Arabia multiple times each time it has seen its Houthi allies troubled by the Saudi offensives of the Saudi-led coalition.
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However, these continuous presentations of naval or military bases full of missiles also have a “strategic” purpose: to send a clear message to the world and in particular to the United States, on the eve of a possible resumption of negotiations to reactivate the JCPOA nuclear agreement. (Join common plan of action). The message is clear: missiles have become an essential, decisive component of Iran’s security. Therefore, the understandable requests of Saudi Arabia and the other Arab Gulf countries to provide for a limit to these missiles in the resumption of the JCPOA nuclear agreement will always find a total denial by the Iranian leadership.
This seems to have become for the administration of Joe Biden the main dilemma in the return to the application of the JCPOA, which in 2018 had been blocked by Donald Trump. Returning to an agreement that limits the search for military nuclear power to the Iranians but allows them to maintain the powerful missile arsenal does not reassure the Arab countries of the Gulf. And it does not reassure Israel itself, which is now well within the range of these bombs.
Iran wants to return to the JCPOA, especially since the economic sanctions imposed by the Trump administration are holding back the country’s economic development. But at the same time it does not want to give signs of weakness, and indeed inaugurates new “missile cities” to tell the world that the Islamic Republic is always ready to fight. The story will continue in the coming weeks.
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