The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/26/us-iran-mines-israel-village-missile-munitions-weapons-war-conflict/?utm_source=mastodon
Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village - bellingcat

US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, Iran.

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@Bellingcat

Aka anti personnell mines

NAZIS DID THIS TOO, LAST CENTURY.

@darkerknight @Bellingcat According to the article it SEEMS to only be anti tank mines.

@InkySchwartz @Bellingcat

So who has tanks there?

@darkerknight @Bellingcat Well reading the article, and you should, it would probably be better to call them anti vehicle mines. As in they have a magentic field sensor, similar to what we see in the US at stop lights, and the movement of a vehicle over it disturbs the sensor and it detonates. Driving a explosively formed penetrator upwards and through 70mm of armor.

Now there are no tanks at this Missile City, thatbI know of but large Ballistic Missile Transporter Errector Launcers (TEL).
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@darkerknight @Bellingcat and these TELs look like the pic below. Note that launcher trailer plus truck are at least 50 ft long and certainlybweigh several tons anc ontain plenty of metal to disturb that magnetic field sensor.
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@darkerknight @Bellingcat So if you look at the first image in the Bellingcat article you can see the approaches to the "Missile city", a hollowed out mountian with TELs like above, are being mined in the village it passes through to slow their ability to deploy and launch from sites nearby the "city".

This deployment is indiscriminate and dangerous to civilians but doean't seem deliberately targeted at them, yet.