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Iran says it has the 'grandmother of all bombs'
2026-10-22
Probably more Mullah vapourware. But if not, how will they get it where it needs to go?
[Regnum] The Iranian army has a "grandmother of all bombs," Interior Ministry spokesman Ali Zeinivand said on October 21.

Earlier, the American television channel CNN, citing representatives of the country's armed forces, stated that if the US resumed strikes on Iran, it could use the "mother of all bombs," the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal.

"If they have the 'mother of all bombs,' then we have the 'grandmother of all bombs.' Don't worry," Zeinivand said on Iranian state television.

The GBU-43/B high-explosive aerial bomb, developed in the early 21st century, is known in the United States as the "Mother of All Bombs." The bomb contains nearly 8.5 tons of explosives. In 2017, Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, then commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, claimed that Iran possessed its own 10-ton bombs, which dwarfed the most powerful US non-nuclear weapons. He called this munition "the father of all bombs."

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