Iran says it has access to US military systems

>> TEHRAN: Iran has been able to infiltrate into the US military’s command and control centres in recent years and gain documents, the country’s state-run television quoted a high-ranking military commander as saying on Friday.

“We have documents which, if published, the Americans’ [activities] will be revealed and they will be disgraced more than ever before,” Brig Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ aerospace forces, was quoted as saying.

The documents include those on US actions in Syria and Iraq and contain ones showing the United States “supported” the Islamic State militants, he said.

“We know how they had supported Isis terrorists, we watched what they see and where they attack,” he said.

Brig Gen Hajizadeh also said Iran has produced a 10-tonne “father of bombs”.

“If the US has the mother of bombs we have the father of bombs. Based on our order, Iran’s defence ministry has produced bombs with a weight of 10 tonnes which can be dropped from Ilyushin airplanes and cause huge damage.”

Tensions between Iran and US have been soaring since US President Donald Trump took office in January and threatened to tear up the nuclear deal with Iran.

“Surrender doesn’t work in front of US pressures because they don’t believe in negotiation and deal. Obeying the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]’s orders is the only solution for problems,” Brig Gen Hajizadeh said.