'We want land invasion': Iran mouthpiece touts new missile, boasts decades of war prep

Tehran has spent decades preparing for — and welcoming — a U.S.ground invasion, a senior Iranian official has claimed, as fresh explosions rocked the region on the eighth day of renewed U.S.-Iran strikes.Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian-American academic identified as a regime "mouthpiece," also boasted that Tehran had just launched a "new missile" while decentralizing and burying its arsenal deep underground to withstand sustained American air campaigns."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 adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, said in an interview with political analyst Glenn Diesen.I'VE STUDIED MILITARY STRATEGY.TRUMP NOW FACES IRAN'S OLDEST BATTLEFIELD TRICKSeyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian-American academic frequently identified as a regime "mouthpiece" said that Tehran had recently launched a new missile.

(Akila Jayawardena/NurPhoto via Getty Images)"Whether they carry them out or not, we'll see.But the Iranians, as you pointed out, the focus of Iranian strikes is on Bahrain and Kuwait, and that's because that's where most American assets have been placed for a ground invasion," Diesen said.Marandi’s comments came as the conflict expanded across western and southern Iran in the run-up to SaturdayIran also launched missile and drone salvos targeting U.S.-linked facilities in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain.Jordanian officials confirmed they intercepted 10 missiles early Saturday, while authorities in Kuwait reported casualties and severe damage to a domestic power and desalination plant.In response, U.S.

airstrikes struck bridges, a key road tunnel, surveillance outposts and reinforced underground weapons storage facilities.Multiple explosions also rocked the city of Khorramabad in Iran's Lorestan province.Iranian state media claimed the blasts were caused by U.S.

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