Iran's Response to US Attacks: Distant Bases and Missile Range

We explained the breach completely. There's nothing more—no. There isn't.

Nima, what you said in the interview is now being quoted from that Al-Mahdi interview.

If the Americans make a mistake and attack us, we won't limit ourselves to targeting nearby bases, but will target all nearby bases and also target the Americans' distant bases.

Again, elsewhere, regarding this same point that relates to geographical limits, the point was that we lifted the restrictions, and if they launch another attack, we will lift these restrictions even further.

That is, in addition to the bases we have targeted so far, we will also target distant U.S. and Israeli military bases.

For this reason, we advise all countries that have on their soil U.S. military bases not to cooperate with any U.S. military attack against Iran.

Look, I mean that this geography in your message, in the report about the meeting between the Supreme Leader and the commanders, was brought up very seriously: that wherever a threat originates, we'll target that place. I saw another part that seemed to mean that if an aircraft—actually, a bird takes off from anywhere,

we can target that place. That was the sort of wording in another part of the Supreme Leader's remarks.

Bring that up too— when the Leader's message came, saying we'll respond without geographical limits, there was speculation. They say, "Float the idea, and someone will pick up on it."

The Europeans quickly took it to mean, "So this is what the Leader means: they want to hit us."

So, don't cooperate with us anymore. We hope you won't cooperate with us, and then we won't hit you.

But once you take part in the war, the truth is, if you get hit, the people of Iran will at least all be happy.

Maybe you'll be upset yourselves. Did the Europeans play a role? Yes, they did.

I mentioned one example on this show before— Nima, let me read the quote. I just found it.

If American planes—I'm sorry. We may even target some U.S. military bases in European countries.

This is happening for the first time. I mean, for the first time, very officially—very officially— It's not just the country's highest-ranking official, in fact, its security official, who's making this point.

If American planes take off from a distant military base and fly to this country to bomb Iran, we will target that base too.

Can you say where the likely ones are? Well, one likely candidate was that RAF base in Britain, where they gathered up and moved their strategic bombers.

At some point, one day, we'll sit down and discuss these events, and the back-and-forths over that RAF base that have happened so far we'll explain in full.

The issue was that a country with a lot of influence, for example, was helping them.

It was Bulgaria. They had a base in Bulgaria.

The Americans had stationed some tanker aircraft there.

Their strategic bombers, the B-1s and B-52s.

Those two were stationed there. They would take off from England.

On the way there, and I think on the way back, I think twice— But at least once, either on the way there or on the way back— they would refuel in the air.

The tanker would come from Bulgaria and refuel them along the way, so they could come strike us and return.

Well, this was a clear example of— And they're within range of our missiles.

In your opinion, with what he says is happening— Look, basically, a country that has the ability to launch satellites and put them into orbit, even low orbits, can hit targets much farther away than these.

And again, refer to those remarks by the great martyr Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, may God have mercy on him.

I think he was martyred about two decades ago.

Around then. I don't remember the exact year.

He has a line, and a clip of it has been shown.

He says, “We have no range limit.” Well, technically, these claims are entirely accurate.

And the limit we had— we wouldn't test missiles over 2,000 kilometers— was because...

And the message, clearly conveyed by the country's senior political officials, was: “Look, our missile program is defensive, and we have no plans to target, for example, Europeans.”

But if necessary, you can do it. This isn't technology that the Islamic Republic of Iran lacks access to.

No, we'd had access to it long before that.

It was mostly a matter of political will.

We've said many times, after the 9th of Esfand and the forty-day war, the mindset of the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic of Iran is definitely different.

Tomorrow, the 21st of Aban, is also the anniversary of the martyrdom of Martyr Tehrani Moghaddam.

So, it’s Aerospace Day. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Or in memory of Martyr Tehrani Moghaddam— May his soul rest in peace.