'We want land invasion': Iran mouthpiece touts new missile, boasts decades of war prep

Tehran has spent decades preparing for — and welcoming — a U.S. crushed invasion, a elder Iranian authoritative has claimed, arsenic caller explosions rocked the portion connected the eighth time of renewed U.S.-Iran strikes.

Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian-American world identified arsenic a authorities "mouthpiece," besides boasted that Tehran had conscionable launched a "new missile" portion decentralizing and burying its arsenal heavy underground to withstand sustained American aerial campaigns.

"The Americans are readying an invasion. I'm not saying it volition needfully happen. I'm not saying it volition needfully hap successful the adjacent fewer days. But they person plans for an invasion," Marandi, a erstwhile advisor to Iran's atomic dialog team, said successful an interrogation with governmental expert Glenn Diesen.

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Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian-American world often identified arsenic a authorities "mouthpiece" said that Tehran had precocious launched a caller missile. (Akila Jayawardena/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Whether they transportation them retired oregon not, we'll see. But the Iranians, arsenic you pointed out, the absorption of Iranian strikes is connected Bahrain and Kuwait, and that's due to the fact that that's wherever astir American assets person been placed for a crushed invasion," Diesen said.

Marandi’s comments came arsenic the struggle expanded crossed occidental and confederate Iran successful the run-up to Saturday

Iran besides launched rocket and drone salvos targeting U.S.-linked facilities successful Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain.

Jordanian officials confirmed they intercepted 10 missiles aboriginal Saturday, portion authorities successful Kuwait reported casualties and terrible harm to a home powerfulness and desalination plant.

In response, U.S. airstrikes struck bridges, a cardinal roadworthy tunnel, surveillance outposts and reinforced underground weapons retention facilities.

Multiple explosions besides rocked the metropolis of Khorramabad successful Iran's Lorestan province. Iranian authorities media claimed the blasts were caused by U.S. missiles launched from determination bases successful Kuwait, according to reports.

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Satellite representation shows the 2nd passageway entranceway and enactment buildings astatine the Khorramabad rocket analyzable successful Lorestan province, Iran, earlier March airstrikes. (Vantor/Unknown)

Khorramabad houses the Imam Ali Missile Base, 1 of Tehran's superior underground silo facilities engineered to store and deploy liquid-fueled Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles, according to Washington’s Nuclear Threat Initiative.

The analyzable was damaged by Israeli airstrikes during the 2025 run targeting Tehran's subject and atomic infrastructure.

Marandi besides elaborate what helium described arsenic a resilient, subterranean web cardinal to Tehran's subject strategy.

"When Iran wants to occurrence missiles oregon drones, they don't enactment them wrong buildings oregon successful piles somewhere. They instrumentality retired immoderate they need," Marandi said. "They occurrence them, and past they spell backmost to their bases, oregon they instrumentality retired antithetic missiles and drones, dispersed them retired successful antithetic areas, enactment them isolated from 1 different truthful that the Americans cannot weaponry them successful ample numbers."

He added: "Everything has been dispersed retired successful Iran and placed underground."

The latest escalation betwixt the U.S. and Iran ended a precocious signed memorandum of knowing (MOU) to found a 60-day ceasefire and facilitate atomic talks.

The cardinal contented has centered connected power of the Strait of Hormuz, with the strategical waterway turning into the conflict's main battleground.

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Marandi claimed that the IRCG introduced a caller rocket to the war. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump ordered renewed airstrikes wrong weeks of the truce, oregon MOU, being implemented, and connected July 14, helium floated the anticipation of launching a crushed campaign.

According to Marandi, Iran's subject bid is actively counting connected a crushed script and has since introduced a caller limb to the theater.

"Iran has that advantage, and of course, it has been accumulating missiles and drones for decades now, and it is doing truthful adjacent now," Marandi claimed.

"They, I think, past nighttime introduced a caller rocket to the war," helium said of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG).

"The Iranians are hitting precise hard, and they are prepared for a onshore war. They've been preparing for decades."

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Marandi concluded by claiming that Tehran views a U.S. crushed cognition arsenic the astir nonstop way to ending the struggle connected its ain terms.

"The Iranians — we discussed this during the 40-day warfare earlier connected your amusement — erstwhile I said that the Iranians really privation the Americans to transportation retired a onshore invasion, and the aforesaid is existent now, due to the fact that they felt that if determination was a onshore invasion, they would win," helium told Diesen.