Iran today (Thursday) inaugurated a command and control facility of the Air Defense named "Atzmeret Matsuma" around the nuclear site in Purdue in Qom province, the Jerusalem Center for Public and State Affairs was quoted as saying by the country's media.
The announcement comes amid growing speculation that Israel is preparing for the possibility of an attack on Iran's nuclear sites.
The commander of the Iranian air defense, Alirza Sabahi Fred, inaugurated the headquarters, saying that Iran is expanding its air defense system and that "the enemy can not even think of attacking Iran."
Sabahi Fred praised Iran's air defense and cyber arrays and said they were very technologically advanced.
The base at Purdue serves as an underground facility for uranium enrichment using 2 IR centrifuges.
During January, Iran began enriching the uranium facility to 20 percent, and at the same time, the enrichment facility at Natanz began enriching uranium to 60 percent.
In January 2013, an explosion occurred at a facility in Purdue and an adjacent electrical facility.
At the same time, Mahdi Farahi, Deputy Defense Minister Mahdi Farahi, said that Iran would soon launch a new and more advanced version of the Bavar-373 advanced air defense system that surpasses in its technology the advanced 400 S. air defense system.
Iran unveiled Bavar-373 during August 2019 after launching the Bavar-373 system independently in response to a ban imposed on Russia to export the 300S GNA system to Iran and stated that it is capable of identifying 300 targets simultaneously, tracking 60 of them intercepting 6 targets Simultaneously and even deal with blocking attempts and so on.
(Bavar-373 is more advanced than the Russian 400S).
Maj. Gen. Michael Segal, a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public and State Affairs and former head of the Iranian branch of the Armed Forces' Research Division, who said that given the past experience and sanctions imposed on Iran, to protect nuclear sites and infrastructure strategies. If Iran is indeed a Hhgn"a better Russian system it may acquire and hit targets within 400 km.
in June, Mugabe said Dimitri, director of the Russian service of military-technical cooperation that the Iranian defense minister revealed Interest in a number of Russian air defense systems including the 400S, during his visit to the ARMY-2020 exhibition in Russia.
Segal stresses that Iran's acquisition of the system could lead to US sanctions on Russia even though the nuclear deal has lifted the Iran embargo on arms exports and imports.
