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Iran inaugurates medium-range ballistic missile: report
An Iranian news outlet says the elite Revolutionary Guard has inaugurated a surface-to-surface ballistic missile it claims has a 1,000-kilometre (620-mile) range.
The report on Thursday by the semi-official Fars news agency, close to the Guard, says a ceremony marking the inauguration was held in an underground missile factory described as an "underground city". The ceremony coincided with the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The report said the missile, dubbed Dezful, is a version of the Zolfaghar missile that has a 700-kilometre (430-mile) range and a 450-kilogram (992-pound) warhead.
Iran has missile capability of up to 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles), far enough to reach archenemy Israel and the United States military bases in the region.
Occasionally, Iran announces military achievements that cannot be independently verified.
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Excellent effort by Iran to build up its defensive capabilities. These good people will not be bullied... Kudos!
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
Heavy arms proliferation, thanks to the senseless, tactless and heartless Trump.
Well done Iran but it’s high time it updated it’s airforce as its airforce is largely made up of old planes from the seventies and eighties.
@Gordon D. Walker, agree, while the glibal bully ptotects and suppirts the war monger, israel.
@M. Saeed, Arms research is fine, but the associated politics of threatening to harm each other and not cooperating with each other to find common good is wrong.