On Oct. 3 local time Tehran opened a temporary military training base at Haft-e
Tir Square to train civilians to resist foreign threats including the US and
Israel. The site can host air-defence equipment drills and obstacle-crossing
training. Authorities have already built a similar camp at another square and
plan to run public training over the coming weeks. Ali Kousari, training
commander of the Basij militia, said Iran is building whole-society
civil-defence capabilities and warned that if the enemy again "misjudges the
situation" and launches a new attack, the Iranian public will unite to resist.
