A weekly publication in Iran says an incident reported as a fire in a military research center in September was an “attack” by Israel to exert pressure on Iran.The little-known Sobh Sadegh publication of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) mentioned Tuesday that a “self-reliance research center” west of Tehran was in targeted by Israel in an operation similar to other attacks since July 2020, including two explosions in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility.The IRGC reported on September 26 that a fire damaged one of its research facilities and three personnel were injured. Hours later, the announcement was deleted from its website and another version appeared saying that the fire was in the depot of the facility. Later, IRGC said that two of its personnel died in the incident.Days later, ImageSat International published images saying that an explosion had taken place in a secret IRGC missile center west of Tehran. The images showed that one-quarter of the building was destroyed.
According to Iran Watch, the IRGC Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization is responsible for ballistic missile research and development;and has helped improve the missile capabilities Gaza, Hezbollah and Houthi terrorists. It has also reportedly overseen an IRGC missile and space research center; has developed combat drones and a 1,900kg solid-fuel motor.
Here are the before and after ImageSat images:
Based on Google Maps satellite photos, the total area destroyed was about 15,000 square feet (1400 square meters.)
One would need to smuggle a large amount of explosives into a highly secure facility to cause that much damage - or the facility already had lots of explosive materials that had to be ignited.
It is really remarkable espionage that saves lives, today and tomorrow.
