'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 charismatic has claimed, arsenic caller explosions rocked nan region connected nan 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" while decentralizing and burying its arsenal heavy underground to withstand sustained American aerial campaigns.

"The Americans are readying an invasion. I'm not saying it will needfully happen. I'm not saying it will needfully hap successful nan adjacent fewer days. But they person plans for an invasion," Marandi, a erstwhile advisor to Iran's atomic speech team, said successful an question and reply pinch 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 aliases not, we'll see. But nan Iranians, arsenic you pointed out, nan attraction of Iranian strikes is connected Bahrain and Kuwait, and that's because that's wherever astir American assets person been placed for a crushed invasion," Diesen said.

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

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

Jordanian officials confirmed they intercepted 10 missiles early Saturday, while 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 nan metropolis of Khorramabad successful Iran's Lorestan province. Iranian authorities media claimed nan blasts were caused by U.S. missiles launched from location bases successful Kuwait, according to reports.

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

Khorramabad houses nan Imam Ali Missile Base, 1 of Tehran's superior underground silo accommodation engineered to shop 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 nan 2025 run targeting Tehran's subject and atomic infrastructure.

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

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

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

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

The cardinal rumor has centered connected power of nan Strait of Hormuz, pinch nan strategical waterway turning into nan conflict's main battleground.

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

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

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

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

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

"The Iranians are hitting very 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 nan astir nonstop way to ending nan conflict connected its ain terms.

"The Iranians — we discussed this during nan 40-day warfare earlier connected your show — erstwhile I said that nan Iranians really want nan Americans to transportation retired a onshore invasion, and nan aforesaid is existent now, because they felt that if location was a onshore invasion, they would win," he told Diesen.