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Experts say the video footage broadcast on Iranian state TV will probably increase concerns in the region and the West about Tehran’s
missile programmes. This could make diplomatic talks around a return to the 2015 nuclear deal more difficult.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday described the new base as a subterranean “missile city”, the state news agency Tasnim reported.
In addition to its collection of
ballistic and cruise missiles
, the new facility can launch mines in various ranges and is equipped with remote warfare capabilities, the Revolutionary Guard said.
The term remote warfare suggests the base houses
involvement in war crimes, international lawyers
Guernica 37 said on Saturday.
The chambers said it submitted the filing with the London Metropolitan Police’s War Crimes Unit, into allegations of “incitement and encouragement to commit acts of terrorism” in Syria by M
s Al Assad, as the war’s
10th anniversary approaches.
Guernica 37 describes itself as a specialist legal company
which works with governments following conflict, but also transnational litigation involving the enforcement of fundamental human rights protection , according to its website.
About half a million people have been killed since the war began in 2011, and more than 5.5 million Syrians have become refugees seeking safety in other countries.