Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say preparing to unveil ‘father of all bombs’

Iran is preparing to unveil a new weapon described as the “father of all bombs,” a spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. “We are in the stage of preparing to unveil the ‘father of all bombs.’ This is something new for the enemy,” Hossein Mohebi said in statements carried by Iran’s Young Journalists Club news agency. He did not provide further details about the weapon. On Friday, US President Donald Trump hinted at the possible use of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, also known as the “mother of all bombs,” to target Iranian nuclear facilities. Weighing around 9,800 kilograms (21,600 pounds), the GBU-43/B is one of the largest non-nuclear conventional bombs in […]