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On paper, the facility appeared to be a death trap, defended by 150 elite IRGC soldiers who had fortified every approach, set landmines, and established tripwire alarms to detect intruders.
For 48 hours, they had advanced stealthily through the unforgiving landscape, hiding beneath camouflage nets by day and moving silently under the cover of darkness.
They had become ghosts in a land designed to be uninhabitable, their resolve unwavering as they approached the strategic facility.