TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have so many missiles they don’t know where to hide them, a senior commander said at Friday prayers, after the United States threatened to impose fresh sanctions, according to AP on Jan. 1, 2016.

“We lack enough space in our stockpiles to house our missiles,” said General Hossein Salami, the Guards’ deputy, as a row with the U.S. over Iran’s ballistic missile program deepened.
“Hundreds of long tunnels are full of missiles ready to fly to protect your integrity, independence and freedom,” he told worshippers in Tehran, promising to never “stop developing our defense deterrent”.
Iranian state television aired in October unprecedented footage of such an underground missile base.
The general’s comments came after reports that the U.S. had planned – but later shelved – to unveil a fresh round of sanctions following two recent missile tests by the Islamic republic.
The mooted financial penalties on companies and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, for apparent links to Tehran’s missile programme, highlighted worsening U.S.-Iran relations.
They also put in jeopardy a landmark deal struck in July between Iran and six world powers including the U.S., which is due to be formally implemented within weeks.
The specter of new penalties against Iran – the nuclear deal is due to lift existing sanctions that froze Iran out of the global financial system and crippled its oil exports – brought worsening relations to a head.
A United Nations panel last month said the two missile tests breached previous resolutions aimed at stopping the Islamic republic from developing projectiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.