Iran has installed a new over-the-horizon (OTH) radar with an 800 km range in the highlands of Gilan Province to monitor the northern airspace of the country, adding it to the integrated air defense network.
This Nazir radar, with its 800 km range, can detect targets at altitudes exceeding 30 km. It can also identify various low radar cross-section targets, such as drones and cruise missiles.
With the Nazir radar in Gilan, the entire airspace over Azerbaijan, Armenia, large parts of eastern Turkey, most of Georgia, western Turkmenistan, part of southwestern Kazakhstan, and the Caspian Sea will be under Iran’s air defense surveillance.
During the Israeli airstrikes on Iran on October 26, 2024, the Caspian Sea airspace was used—likely with cooperation from the Azerbaijan government—to target the Shahroud facilities. Now, with the Nazir radar operational in Gilan province, the skies over Baku and the Caspian Sea will be continuously monitored by Iran’s defense network, ready to counter any hostile movements.
Hal Turner Analysis
Now we all know why Iran has delayed its response to the second attack by Israel that took place months ago. Iran kept saying they were going to retaliate - and they would do so prior to the Inauguration of Donald Trump.
Clearly, Iran understood the Israeli attack took place by virtue of IDF planes coming in from the Caspian Sea, likely with the help of the Dictator of Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev.
It took many months for Iran to build this new radar site. Now that it is built, and presumably operational, Iran is now free to retaliate against Israel, without having to worry about being hit by IDF planes again from the north.
Adding to the reality that Azerbaijan was the entity that allowed IDF planes to cross its air space into the Caspian Sea, was the Helicopter crash that killed Iran's President Raisi back on May 19, 2023.
On the day of the helicopter crash, the Iranian President flew to the border between Iran and Azerbaijan to meet President Aliyev.
It was while returning from that trip, the Iranian Presidential Helicopter "went down" killing The Iran President, Foreign Minister, and several others.
Did Aliyev "lure" Raisi to a border meeting so that his Helicopter could be "downed?"
There was extensive investigation by Iran of the crash and they officially declared it to be an accident. But there is still a lingering, nagging, feeling that Aliyev worked with Israel to achieve the death. Aliyev's large, ugly "hook-nose" is one give-away.
That nagging feeling in Iran was reinforced when Israel detonated pocket pagers, cell phones, and walkie talkies against Hezballah in Lebanon last year. Many, MANY wondered if Israel did the same thing to people onboard the Presidential helicopter, causing it to crash.
With the Israel attack upon Iran having come via the Caspian Sea, and with Azerbaijan bordering on that Sea, and having extensive relations with Israel, it isn't hard to figure out who allowed Israeli planes through their air space to get to the Caspian Sea: Azerbaijan.
Now that the new Iran Radar site is up, it would seem logical to conclude that Iran can now carry out its retaliation against Israel without fear of being sneak-attacked from the north.
