Iran has constructed “missile cities” alongside its southern coastline in a promise of a “nightmare” for its enemies, a top Iranian general said Sunday, as cited by Reuters.

Rear Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri, head of the naval arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told the Sobh-e Sadeq weekly, described by the Middle East Media Research Institute as a “mouthpiece” for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that missile sites had also been established offshore.

The “cities” — a term used by Iran to describe underground missile storage facilities protected from airstrikes — are said to store surface-to-air projectiles.

Tangsiri also said that Iran was about to unveil new long-range missiles and naval ships and warned that the country was keeping an eye on every vessel passing through the Strait of Hormuz — a bottleneck passage connecting the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, a strategic waterway for global energy supplies.

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