Iran revealed a new ballistic missile on Sunday that it said was capable of travelling 1,700 kilometers, unveiling it in a Tehran ceremony attended by President Masoud Pezeshkian.
State television broadcast images of the missile, dubbed Etemad, or “trust” in Persian, saying it had a maximum range of 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles) and was “the most recent ballistic missile” built by the Iranian defense ministry.
“The development of defense capabilities and space technologies… aims to ensure that no country dares to attack Iranian territory,” Pezeshkian said in a televised address.
The ceremony took place on Iran’s national aerospace day and a few days before the 46th anniversary of the creation of the Islamic republic on February 10, 1979.
Meanwhile on Saturday, Iran’s state media said the country had test-fired an anti-warship cruise missile with a range of 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) capable of reaching U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman.
“This is a Ghadr-380 mile type L. It has over 1,000 kilometers range. It has anti-jamming capability,” said Gen. Ali Reza Tangsiri, the head of the navy of the Revolutionary Guard, in a report that showed an underground missile facility on the southern coast of Iran.
The report elaborated neither on warhead that the missile carried, nor the time of the test.
