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Wednesday, 2 April 2025
Which Iranian Missiles and Drones Can Wipe US Bases in the Middle East Off the Map?
President Trump has threatened to bomb Iran in a manner âthe likes of which they have never seen beforeâ unless a new nuclear deal is agreed.
The US has over 60 bases, garrisons and shared facilities dotting the Middle East, from Naval Support Activity Bahrain (home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet) and Al Udeid Air Base (CENTCOMâs forward HQ), to other naval, air and ground facilities in the Gulf, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Turkiye.
US bases in the Middle East.
In the event of war, all would be in range of Iranâs missiles and drones.
Qiam-1/2: 800-1,000 km range, 750 kg warhead
Haj Qasem: 1,400 km range, 500 kg warhead
Kheibar Shekan: 1,450 km range, 500 kg warhead
Emad: 2,000 km range, 750 kg payload
Ghadr-110: 1,600-2,000 km range, 1,000 kg payload
Khorramshahr: 2,000 km range, 1,800 kg payload, MIRV-enabled
Ground-Based Cruise Capabilities
Abu Mahdi: 1,000 km range, 410 kg warhead
Paveh: 1,650 km range, payload unknown
Soumar: Precision strike missile with 2,500-3,000 km range, 410-700 kg payload
Kaman-12: 1,000 km range, 100 kg payload
Shahed 129: 1,700 km range, armed with four Sadid-1 precision missiles
Mohajer-6: 2,400 km range, carries precision-guided munitions
Shahed 149: 2,500 km range, 13-bomb payload up to 500 kg
Soufan Center analysis of estimated range capabilities of Iran's ballistic missiles.
Besides raw firepower, Iranâs potential also comes down to two other factors: geography and resolve.
Permanent access to the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman coastlines means that in wartime, Iran can dominate the waters around the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic chokepoint through which 30% of the worldâs oil trade passes.
The Zagros Mountain Range hugging the countryâs southwest provides a natural barrier difficult for enemies to penetrate, with many underground missile bases and air defense sites situated at hardened mountainous facilities.
Iran has also shown repeatedly that it will not allow aggression to stand, whether it comes to US spy drones violating airspace, or assassination attackstargeting its commanders. Iran will not hesitate to retaliate against any aggressor, no matter how powerful.
Huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Tonga sparking a Tsunami threat warning
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck near Tonga, prompting a tsunami warning for the Pacific Island country.
The temblor hit around 100km (62 miles) northeast of the main island early on Monday local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Germany's GFZ centre for geosciences had earlier pegged the earthquake at magnitude 6.6.
The quake struck six miles deep, far shallower than the 18-mile deep Boxing Day tsunami.
But a shallow quake shakes the ground more severely, meaning the likelihood of a major tsunami is increased.
Hazardous waves could be possible for coasts within 300km (185 miles) of the quakeâs epicentre, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
No reports of damage were immediately available, as the quake struck in the middle of the night.
The USGS has listed Fiji and Niue as the two other countries affected by the tremor.
A geolocator showing the exact location of the earthquake that struck Tonga's coast
Pictured: Houmaleâeia Beach in Tonga, a stretch of sand at the tip of Foa Island
A 'credible' tsunami threat for the vicinity remains in place, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned.
More than 2,000 people have reported feeling the quake which range from strong shaking to 'light' tremors.
Very few residents have been exposed to any danger during the initial earthquake and the risk of landslides is small, according to the US Geological Survey.
The Bureau of Meteorology confirmed there is no tsunami threat to Australia.
Tonga is a country in Polynesia. It is made up of 171 islands and home to 100,000 people, most of whom live on the island of Tongatapu.
The country is more than 3,500km (2,000 miles) from Australia's east coast.
Tonga and Niue, which is northeast of the quake's epicentre, may see a tsunami wave of between 0.3m to one metre.
And the Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Kermadec Islands, American Samoa and Wallis and Fortuna could see a wave of less than 30cm.
A satellite image shows the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haâapai volcano that erupted in 2022
There were no immediate reports of damage from the quake which struck in the early hours of Monday morning
It comes just two days after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar on Friday, with the death toll passing 1,600 in Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand.
State television in Myanmar confirmed that 1,644 have died - a sharp rise over the 1,002 total announced just hours earlier, underlining the difficulty of confirming casualties over a widespread region and the likelihood that the numbers will continue to grow.
The US Geological Survey and Germany's GFZ centre for geosciences said the quake struck at a shallow 6.2 miles below the surface, before a second quake, with a magnitude of 6.4, shook the area 12 minutes later.
A state of emergency has now been declared in six regions and states in Myanmar by the military-run government.
Tonga was rocked by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in 2022, covering the most populated islands in ash.
The eruption resulted in Earth's the largest atmospheric explosion on modern record and left a crater in the seabed.
The volcano began erupting in December, 2021, and reached a devastating climax nearly four weeks later in mid January, 2022.
Because of Israel's abusive policies, the human rights situation in Palestine and for Palestinians is alarming. (Pictured: a child in Gaza City.) (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)
Through the years, numerous humanitarian organizations have produced detailed reports on the situation in Israel-Palestine. Below are some of them.
â By IAK Staff
While both the Israeli and Palestinian governments have committed human rights violations, the Israeli abuses have been far more numerous, significant, and causative.
Moreover, many Israeli abuses are directly connected with Israelâs decades-long military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, theft of Palestinian land, and imprisoning of Palestinians behind a barrier â all of which violate international law â as documented in the reports below.
In addition, it is important to remember that Israel was established in 1948 through a war of ethnic cleansing, as an Israeli historian and many others have documented. It is also important to be aware that Israelâs claim that it is in danger from Palestinian attacks is also inaccurate.
U.S. media, however, rarely report these facts.
For example, in the years 2000-2007, humanitarian organizations published 76 reports documenting Israeli human rights abuses, and four reports documenting Palestinian abuses. The New York Times reported on two of each.
The relative quantity, chronology, and circumstances of the deaths (documented here) among both populations reflect the disproportionate power of the Israeli military over Palestinian resistance groups. Again, we find, the U.S. media regularly distort this reality.
See a detailed timeline of Palestinians and Israelis killed since 2000 here.
See recent articles on human rights violations here.
Below are a few of the multitude of reports documenting the situation for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza; a few address the situation for Palestinians within Israel itself. We will add new reports as they become available. Please check back often:
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME): Who Is Talking About Israeli Apartheid? â a list (not exhaustive) of notable organizations and individuals who have recently adopted, or expressed openness toward, the terminology of Israeli apartheid.
Military Court Watch: Israeli Solitary Confinement of Children (December 7, 2021)âPalestinian children have been forcibly transferred from the West Bank to prisons inside Israel for 54 years and subjected to solitary confinement during interrogation for at least 30 years, possibly much longer. To date there has been no accountability.â
âSince the Second World War, the transfer of civilians, including detainees, out of occupied territory has been prohibited under the Fourth Geneva Convention.â
UNICEF states: âIn no circumstances whatsoever should a child be held in solitary confinement.â
âSince January 2019 there has been a surge in the use of solitary confinement in cases involving children with the evidence disclosing a rate of 19.7 percent between 2019 and May 2021, with the trend continuing to rise. It is estimated that at this current rate, between 100 to 200 children are now being held in solitary confinement each yearâŠ..â Read more â More information here.
No Thanksgiving for the Palestinian Children of Gaza: UN says Israelis deprived them of $16.7 Bn., potable water â Israeli authorities for three years actually calculated what would be necessary to keep the Palestinians of Gaza alive but without any fat on their bodies (so as to avoid the appearance they were being starved), and to keep goods allowed into the Strip to that level. They miscalculated, because stunting was observed among Palestinian children, to whom they pettily denied chocolate in specific.
Defense for Children International-Palestine: Military Detention (2019).
Oxfam: Timeline: the humanitarian impact of the Gaza blockade ( 2018) e.g. Less than 16% of items needed to construct vital water infrastructure are reaching Gaza â While less than four percent of fresh water is drinkableâŠ
If Americans Knew is a nonprofit organization dedicated to giving Americans the facts on Israel-Palestine. The organization particularly focuses on information largely missing from U.S. media reports.
