Iran Ready for Prolonged War, Set to Unveil New Weapons Not Yet Deployed

Iran is fully prepared for a prolonged war and ready to unveil advanced weapons that have not yet been used in the conflict, a spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said.

In a statement, Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini said Iran’s enemies would suffer painful blows in the next wave of attacks to come.

“Iran’s initiatives and new weapons are on their way,” he said, quoted by Al Jazeera on Friday (6 March 2026). “These technologies have not been deployed at scale.”

Naeini said that Iran is now more prepared than during the twelve-day war launched last year by the United States and Israel. He described the ongoing military confrontation as a “holy and legitimate war.”

Meanwhile, The Guardian reported that Iran-backed militias across the Middle East are continuing to intensify attacks on Israel, the US, and their allies. The strikes are in retaliation for joint US-Israel operations underway against Tehran.

The conflict involves new armed actors, threatening broader chaos and violence.

Israel and the US have targeted networks of Iran-backed militant groups, with Iraq emerging as a principal front in this new confrontation.

Militias in Iraq have launched dozens of attacks since the war began on Saturday, targeting Israel and US bases in Jordan and in Iraq itself.

In recent days they have also targeted infrastructure of the Kurdish-Iran opposition group based in the predominantly Kurdish north of Iraq, which has its own administration.

Israel and the US are seeking to weaken pro-Iran militias in Iraq through air strikes and ground special forces operations, according to analysts and former regional intelligence officials with broad knowledge.

Since the US-led invasion in 2003, Iraq has become a theatre of proxy warfare between the US, its allies, and Iran. But current national leaders have sought to avoid involvement in this new conflict.

The pro-Iran militias are recruited from Iraq’s Shia majority and follow orders from senior IRGC officers.

On Tuesday, as a sign of intensifying proxy warfare across the region, officials in Washington hinted that they were considering mobilising Iranian Kurds. However, several Kurdish figures rejected the plan.