Iran inaugurated its second makeshift urban military training base in Tehran on Saturday, staging the opening as a show of defiance while the United States threatens to "blow up" and "annihilate" the regime, according to Associated Press video from the capital.
The move comes as the Trump administration tightens the economic vise: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Iran will have "no oil on the water" this week — zero crude revenue — as Operation Economic Outcast cuts off the regime's most critical cash source and pushes Tehran toward a deal on American terms.
Tehran frames the new training sites as homeland defense, part of a mass mobilization drive the Revolutionary Guards say has drawn hundreds of thousands of volunteers into "national resistance" battalions.