Tehran / PNN /
The head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, stated that Iran’s underground and mountainous missile facilities remained completely intact, confirming that they sustained no significant damage from the Israeli aggression in June.
Jalali explained in a television interview that over the past years, the organization implemented a series of measures to protect missile facilities, noting that “over the past twenty years, based on continuous threat assessments, practical plans were designed and executed to secure missile cities and ammunition depots, with special priority given to the space and missile sectors.”
He added that “the missile facilities and their depots remained safe throughout the twelve-day war thanks to their construction underground and under the mountains,” clarifying that “damage to some entrances and exits was limited and easily repairable.”
Regarding nuclear threats, Jalali pointed out that the risk of war has existed since the beginning of nuclear activities, emphasizing that “based on threat scenarios, sensitive nuclear centers were designed in secure locations under mountains.”
Jalali noted that he, along with Dr. Larijani, initially proposed building nuclear centers in secure locations, and after assessing new threats, including bunker-buster bombs, priority was given to the construction of the Fordow and Isfahan facilities.
He concluded by asserting that “U.S. claims about the destruction of nuclear facilities are false, as most of their details remain classified.”
On June 13, last year, the occupation launched a sudden war on Iran that lasted 12 days, involving reciprocal strikes that resulted in hundreds of casualties on both sides, before Washington announced a ceasefire on June 24 amid mutual claims of victory.
During the war, Tehran claimed to have targeted the Mossad headquarters and its surroundings in Tel Aviv, causing significant damage—a claim not officially confirmed by Israel, which maintained strict censorship over the losses to its sensitive sites resulting from Iranian attacks.
