Iran’s regime has proclaimed that it has a “father of all bombs” which is larger than the US’s most powerful non-nuclear weapons.

Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh (pictured), the commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Aerospace Force, announced Friday on TV, “[Our] Defense Industries manufactured a 10-ton bomb. These bombs are at our disposal. They can be launched from [Russian-made] Ilyushin aircraft and they are highly destructive.”

The US dropped a 9.98-metric ton Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed the “Mother of All Bombs”, for the first time in April. The operation was carried out against an Islamic State position in eastern Afghanistan in April.

State outlet Press TV tried to cushion Hajizadeh’s boast with the reassurance that “Iran has repeatedly insisted that its military capabilities are solely aimed for defense purposes and they pose no threat to other countries”.

However, it then adds its own proclamation of Iranian strength, repeating the Revolutionary Guards’ assertion that it killed more than 170 Islamic State fighters in eastern Syria in June.

Analysts have raised doubts that some or even all of the missiles hit their targets, with one falling short in Iraqi territory.

“US Supporting ISIS”

Hajizadeh also repeated Iran’s long-standing, unsupported allegation that the US has supported the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — even as the American military has backed and carried out offensives to drive ISIS out of its major positions.

“We have documents showing the behavior of the Americans in Iraq and Syria. We know what the Americans did there; what they neglected and how they supported Daesh,” the commander said.

He insisted that if the Revolutionary Guards are allowed to release the documents, they will bring “scandals” for Washington.

The US came “to Iraq and Syria to disintegrate them, but what eventually happened was Iran’s will. I see no army in the world to be on a par with the IRGC [Revolutonary Guards,” Hajizadeh added.