Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday unveiled a new naval ballistic missile with a potential range of more than 700km, following months of tensions with the US.
The missile, dubbed Zolfaghar Basir, is the naval variant of the surface-to-surface Zolfaghar ballistic missile, according to Tasnim news agency. Its range is more than twice that of Iran’s other naval missiles, including the Hormuz-2, with a range of 300km, which Tehran said it successfully tested in March 2017.
Tasnim did not specify whether or not the new missile has been tested.
Images published by Tasnim showed the Zolfaghar Basir installed on a launcher truck during the inauguration of Tehran’s National Aerospace Park on Sunday.
“This exhibition shows the comprehensive plan of the deterrent power of the (Islamic republic’s) system,” Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami said at the inauguration.
The Guards used the Zolfaghar in 2017 and 2018 against Islamic State in Syria in retaliation for terrorist attacks carried out in the country.
Read the report in The Australian (AFP).