Alwaght- Iran has announced it test-fired a high precision ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers and an accuracy to within eight meters.
“Two weeks ago, we test-fired a missile with a range of 2000 kilometers and a margin of error of eight meters,” Abdollahi said in a scientific conference in Tehran on Monday, adding that the margin means that the missile enjoys zero error, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi announced. "We can guide this ballistic missile...," he added.
The commander refused to provide further details of the missile or its name.
He further emphasized that the headquarters of the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces has allocated 10 percent of defense budget to research projects aimed at strengthening defense power.
Meanwhile, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan says the Islamic Republic has never stopped undertaking defensive measures including missile tests.
“We have never pursued an invasive view and what we are doing is [based on] upgrading our country’s defensive capability,” Dehqan said on Monday.
He stressed that Iran's military doctrine is defensive and is aimed at ensuring the country’s security.
“Security and development of the region are intertwined and our defense might guarantees this issue,” the Iranian minister pointed out.
Dehqan further slammed propaganda campaign spearheaded by the US and Saudi Arabia against Iran’s defense power and its missile tests.
“The Americans and the Saudis are trying to spread a climate of turmoil and tension in the region and have put so-called Iranophobia top on their agenda and attribute any event to this issue,” he said.
He added that extra-regional powers that are present in the Middle East are justifying their presence by claim that every development poses a threat to them.
Iran continued tested ballistic missiles early March by launching two Qadr missiles, which it said could hit targets in Israel. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps IRGC reported firing several unspecified ballistic missiles from underground silos across the country. They are presumed to be Iran’s new Emad missiles, which Tehran first unveiled in October 2015, saying they have advanced guidance systems.
Mid-March Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani underlined that the country’s weapons are only for defense. Rouhani noted that country’s ballistic missile serves defensive and deterrent purposes, stressing that the Islamic Republic has never sought to launch aggression against any country. Iran insists that none of its missiles have been designed for carrying nuclear warheads.
