A dissident Iranian leadership group, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (MEK), has provided Fox News Digital with information about a secret website where Islamic Republic of Iran it supposedly stores and prepares the missiles it uses against enemies, sells them to allies, and supplies them to its proxies.

Located in a mountainous region outside the city of Eshtehard, northwest of Tehran in Alborz province, the camp, known as the Shahid (Martyr) Soltani Garrison, is heavily guarded and surrounded by two rows of barbed wire. It allegedly saw increased activity in the latter part of 2024, with the MEK noting that “more than ten trailers carrying missile parts” passed through the camp in July.

Weapons stored at the site include Shahab-3, Qiam, Fateh and Fath series ballistic missiles, the MEK said.

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Satellite images show the Shahid Soltani Garrison outside Eshtehard, Iran, including large storage warehouses (left), a set of smaller buildings (right) and an underground tunnel with two openings (center). (NCRI/MEK)

Iran expert Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that after the “layered attack” on Israel in April, which involved some 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, the Islamic regime “got rid of low and slow flying goods’ and weapons ‘doubled’ to ballistic weapons. Iran launched more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israeli airspace on October 1.

Taleblu noted that Iran used the same liquid-propellant systems from its April attack, the Emad and Ghadr ballistic missiles, which are evolutions of the Shahab-3. He said the October attack also involved the Kheibar Shekan solid rocket booster and apparently even the Fattah-1 hypersonic ballistic missile. An Israel Defense Forces spokesman also confirmed to Fox News Digital that Iran’s recent attacks included Fattah-1 and Fattah-2 hypersonic ballistic missiles.

Shahid Soltani Garrison is located in a remote mountainous area outside of Eshtehard, Iran. (NCRI/MEK)

During the larger October 1 attack on Israel, two American destroyers intercepted about a dozen Iranian missiles. Neither the Pentagon nor the Defense Intelligence Agency responded to questions from Fox News Digital about whether U.S. assets were targeted by the variety of Iranian ballistic missiles said to be hosted at the Eshtehard site, or whether the U.S. intercepted any of those missiles in region. .

To protect Israel from further Iranian ballistic missile strikes, the US has sent the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) system to Tel Aviv, along with a group of 100 US soldiers to operate the system. Taleblu says THAAD will “function as a critical patch in Israel’s existing, already very well-layered air missile defense,” though with only 48 interceptors, Taleblu says THAAD’s long-term adequacy is “debatable.”

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh delivers a speech as Iran unveils its first hypersonic ballistic missile, the Fattah, at an event in Tehran on June 6, 2023. (Sepah News / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

It is not known if the ballistic missiles aimed at Israel were stored or prepared at the Shahid Soltani garrison. It is also not known if the short-range ballistic missiles that Iran has supplied to Russia, for which Iran has been sanctioned by the US Treasury and State departments, were retained at the location.

The MEK provided satellite images showing two distinct sections of the Shahid Soltani garrison. The above-ground storage sites “were established at least 15 years ago” and include a single-story warehouse segment and a three-story warehouse offering a combined 6,500 square feet of storage space. About 10 buildings in another segment of the garrison provide another 3,000 square meters of space. Underground tunnels built on the site between 2017 and 2021 provide multiple storage locations.

According to the report, the Al-Ghadir Missile Command, an element of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is responsible for the camp. Brig. IRGC. General Partovi was the last known commander of the site. The MEK said that Colonel Mohammad Reza Hakimzadeh and Colonel Barati of the IRGC’s Eshtehard Corps are responsible for administrative affairs related to the camp.

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The report shows three one-story warehouses, a three-story warehouse and a fifth undescribed warehouse providing a total of 6,500 square meters of storage space in a segment of the Shahid Soltani Garrison. (MEK/NCRI)

In 2010, the Al-Ghadir Missile Command was sanctioned by the US. as well as by the EU. Commanders within the Al-Ghadir Missile Command, including Mahmoud Bagheri Kazemabad and Mohammad Agha Jafari, have also been subject to US sanctions.

Ballistic missiles of probable and certain Iranian origin have previously targeted US forces. Iran-backed militias fired an unknown short-range ballistic missile at Al Asad Air Base on November 21, 2023, resulting in eight injuries and damage to infrastructure.

On January 8, 2020, Iran launched 27 theater ballistic missiles at Al Asad Air Base. Of these, 11 Fateh and Qiam missiles landed inside the US base, according to a medical study of the effects of the attack. The impact of the missiles resulted in approximately 35 cases of traumatic brain injuries or concussions.

Residents of Jerusalem take shelter during an Iranian missile barrage on October 1, 2024. (Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS-IL)

Taleblu noted that countering Iran’s ballistic missile program will require multiple lines of effort. At the economic and political end of the spectrum, they take on Iran’s trade with China, tracking Iran’s internal and external supply chain “for the entire ballistic life cycle” and exposing the rotating array of individuals involved in the ballistic missile program to travel. prohibitions and sanctions. In tandem with covert or kinetic operations, the aforementioned efforts “can really handcuff this missile program,” Taleblu explained.

Taleblu said it was important to maintain advanced missile defense systems to deter Iranian weapons, strengthen US bases and ensure that “punishment deterrents are not only present, but understood and credible.”

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A Fateh-110 missile is shown at an undisclosed location in Tehran, Iran, circa 2010. (Vahid Reza Alaei/Iranian Ministry of Defense via AP/File)

Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the National Resistance Council of Iran’s Washington office, shared a different approach with Fox News Digital. He explained that “true democracy in Iran and peace and tranquility in the region depend on the fall of the regime, a responsibility that rests with the Iranian people and their organized resistance.”

“Survival of the Iranian Regime depends on exporting terrorism and bellicosity while brutally oppressing the Iranian people,” Jafarzadeh said. Noting that “decades of silence have encouraged this dictatorship,” he called for the application of the “terrorist designation of the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security” and recommended that “supporting Iranian youth and resistance units to confront the IRGC are crucial steps that the United States and European nations must take.”