Iran has no concerns about the deployment of the American THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense battery in Israel. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the Islamic Republic, Major General Aziz Nasirzadeh.
“The THAAD system is a missile defense system, and it is not new. We assess these enemy actions as psychological warfare. There is no particular problem with this,” the Tasnim agency quotes Nasirzadeh as saying. On October 13, the US Department of Defense confirmed the sending of a THAAD missile defense battery to Israel to fend off a potential ballistic missile attack from Iran amid escalating tensions in the region. The ground-based THAAD system is designed to intercept ballistic missile warheads at the final stage of the mid-flight trajectory and when approaching the target. It is designed to protect troops, as well as cities and important facilities from ballistic missiles, both short-range and strategic.
