Iran regime mouthpiece claims Tehran welcomes US ground invasion
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Tehran has spent decades preparing for and welcoming a US ground invasion, a senior Iranian official claimed, as new explosions shook the region on the eighth day of renewed US-Iran offensives.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian American academic who described the regime as “nozzle,He also boasted that Tehran had launched a “new missile” while decentralizing its arsenal and burying it deep underground in order to withstand American air strikes.
“The Americans are planning an invasion. I’m not saying it will necessarily happen. I’m not saying it will necessarily happen in the next few days. But they have plans for an invasion,” Marandi, a former advisor to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team, said in an interview with political analysts. he said. Glenn Diesen.
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian-American academic often described as the regime’s “spokesman”, said Tehran had recently launched a new missile. (Akila Jayawardena/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“We’ll see if they’re going to carry those out. But the Iranians, as you noted, the focus of Iranian attacks is Bahrain and Kuwait, and that’s because that’s where most of the American assets are deployed for ground attack,” Diesen said.
Marandi’s comments came as the conflict spread to western and southern Iran towards Saturday.
Iran has also launched missile and drone salvos targeting US-linked facilities in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain.
Jordanian officials confirmed they had captured 10 missiles early on Saturday, while officials in Kuwait reported casualties and serious damage to a local power and desalination plant.
In response, U.S. airstrikes hit bridges, a major highway tunnel, surveillance outposts, and fortified underground weapons storage facilities.
Many explosions also occurred in the city of Khorramabad in Iran’s Lorestan province. Iranian state media claimed that the explosions were caused by US missiles launched from regional bases in Kuwait. reports.
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Satellite image shows the second tunnel entrance and support buildings at the Khorramabad missile complex in Iran’s Lorestan province before airstrikes in March. (Vantor/Unknown)
According to Washington, Khorramabad is home to the Imam Ali Missile Base, one of Tehran’s major underground silo facilities designed to store and deploy liquid-fueled Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles. Nuclear Threat Initiative.
The complex was damaged by Israeli air strikes targeting Tehran’s military and nuclear infrastructure during the 2025 campaign.
Marandi also detailed what he described as a resilient, underground network that is central to Tehran’s military strategy.
“When Iran wants to fire missiles or drones, they don’t put them inside buildings or in piles somewhere. They take out everything they need,” Marandi said. “They fire them and then they go back to their bases, or they take out different missiles and drones, scatter them in different areas, move them away from each other so the Americans can’t bomb them in large numbers.”
He added: “In Iran, everything has been spread and placed underground.”
The latest tension between the United States and Iran ended with the recently signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) to ensure a 60-day ceasefire and facilitate nuclear negotiations.
The main issue centered on control of the Strait of Hormuz, with the strategic waterway turning into the main battleground of the conflict.
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Marandi claimed that the IRCG had introduced a new missile to the war. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump ordered renewed airstrikes a few weeks after the ceasefire (MOU) was implemented and raised the possibility of launching a ground offensive on July 14.
According to Marandi, Iran’s military command is actively relying on a ground scenario and has since fielded a new weapon.
“Iran has this advantage, and of course it has been accumulating missiles and drones for decades and is doing this even now,” Marandi said.
“I think they added a new missile to the war last night,” he said of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG).
“The Iranians are hitting very hard and are preparing for a land war. They have been preparing for decades.”
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Marandi concluded by claiming that Tehran sees the US ground operation as the most direct way to end the conflict on its own terms.
“The Iranians — we discussed this on your show during the previous 40-day war — when I said that the Iranians actually wanted the Americans to carry out a land invasion, and the same is true now, because they thought that if there was a land invasion, they would win,” he told Diesen.
