Iran Poised for Prolonged War, to Unveil New Weapons Soon

The war in the Middle East continues to rage. The spokesperson for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini, said Iran is fully prepared for a ‘prolonged war’ with the United States and Israel, and that Tehran is ready to unveil a new generation of strategic weapons unseen on the battlefield. He stressed that the wave of attacks under Operation ‘True Promise 4’ conducted so far has used only a fraction of Iran’s actual capabilities. ‘Iran’s initiative and new weapons are coming soon,’ the spokesman said. ‘This technology has not been deployed at scale. The enemy must be prepared for painful strikes in every forthcoming wave of operations,’ he was quoted by Iranian media Press TV on Friday, 6 March 2026.

That announcement came as Iran launched the Khaybar missiles at Tel Aviv, Israel. The missile strikes triggered a series of explosions across the area. Firefighters worked to extinguish a blaze in a residential building near a commercial district in Israeli-occupied territory. AFP reported on Friday, 6 March 2026, that the blasts occurred after Israel widened its campaign against Hizballah, vowing to avenge the Tehran-backed militant group for joining the conflict following the killing of Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran’s state television said Tehran fired missiles ‘at targets in the heart of Tel Aviv,’ after the Israeli military said it was attempting to intercept the Iranian fire late Thursday night local time. An AFP journalist in Tel Aviv heard two near-simultaneous explosions reverberate across the city. Rocket tracers also illuminated the skies over Netanya, a city north of Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean coast. After the rocket attack, Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) said its teams had visited several affected locations, but there were no fatalities. Israeli police said they were ‘currently dealing with the incident sites involving missiles that fell in central Israel’, adding that there was ‘damage’ but no injuries.