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Iran digging for buried missile launchers
The Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | April 15th, 2026 | Lilia Sebouai

Posted on 04/15/2026 11:33:15 AM PDT by Mariner

Iran is digging out its underground missile bases during the ceasefire with the US and Israel, satellite imagery suggests.

Heavy machinery has been seen clearing debris from blocked tunnels, scooping up rubble and loading it into nearby trucks.

Those entrances were deliberately targeted in earlier strikes by the US and Israel, as part of a strategy aimed at trapping missile launchers underground.

One satellite image taken on April 10 shows a front-end loader on a mound of debris that was sealing a tunnel entrance, with several dumper trucks waiting nearby at a missile base near Khomeyn, Iran.

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They will never stop, they will never surrender.

That is the reality Mr. President.

1 posted on 04/15/2026 11:33:15 AM PDT by Mariner
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and what do they expect to do with missiles that have been obliterated they cant tape it back together


2 posted on 04/15/2026 11:34:38 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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3 posted on 04/15/2026 11:37:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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If I were driving those machines I would at least prefer to take my lunch break as far from them and the entrance as I could.


4 posted on 04/15/2026 11:38:28 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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So nice of them to clear the debris so the next bunker buster can reach much deeper.


5 posted on 04/15/2026 11:38:49 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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So nice of them to clear the debris so the next bunker buster can reach much deeper.


6 posted on 04/15/2026 11:38:52 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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No big deal. once they retrieve whatever they can, we just blow it up too. You know we are watching every move and taking notes.


7 posted on 04/15/2026 11:38:53 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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Bomb the diggers.


8 posted on 04/15/2026 11:42:18 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Groypers: “Low IQ” - PDJT)
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To: Mariner

This is why they wanted a cease fire!


9 posted on 04/15/2026 11:42:50 AM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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(They will never stop,
they will never surrender.)

That is correct regarding
the Mullahs / IRGC


10 posted on 04/15/2026 11:43:39 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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(This is why they wanted a cease fire!)

Yes. Exactly.


11 posted on 04/15/2026 11:44:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Bravest backhoe operations I’ve ever seen….
And the dumbest …


12 posted on 04/15/2026 11:48:39 AM PDT by OKC Patriot ("Never Forget"!)
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Strafing must be a lost art.


13 posted on 04/15/2026 11:48:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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Strafing must be a lost art.


14 posted on 04/15/2026 11:48:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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Wait until the US takes Musk’s Optimus robots, spray paints them with camo, givers them guns and a backpack filled with high explosives and sends the. To infiltrate tunnels to go bang.


15 posted on 04/15/2026 11:55:04 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking..........)
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The ceasefire will end when they can launch these newly retrieved missiles.


16 posted on 04/15/2026 11:55:09 AM PDT by xp38
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This is why they wanted a cease fire!

Of course it is ... they learned a thing or two from "Charlie" ...

17 posted on 04/15/2026 11:57:22 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Bravest backhoe operations I’ve ever seen…. And the dumbest …

If they are true believers of Islam, they are happy to do it and perhaps become a martyr.

If they are not, they probably have a choice of being shot, beheaded, or take their chances running the equipment.

18 posted on 04/15/2026 12:00:48 PM PDT by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
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I got hammered when I asked a few weeks ago "Did we learn nothing from Vietnam?

Every time we had a bombing halt they repaired rearmed and reloaded. Then we paid for it in American airmen.

The iranians are using the same roadmap, stir up world opinion against us then milk it out until our congresscritters decide its time to surrender..

19 posted on 04/15/2026 12:05:54 PM PDT by pfflier
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20 posted on 04/15/2026 12:23:45 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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