The deputy chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has warned Europe against forcing the Islamic Republic into boosting the range of its missiles by trying to halt their development.
“If the Europeans, or anyone else, want to conspire to disarm Iran of missiles, we will be forced to make a strategic leap,” the guards’ deputy commander Brigadier-General Hossein Salami said on state TV on Saturday.
“All that hear me today, come to terms with the new reality of Iran’s missile might: there are no obstacles or technical limitations to us increasing (their) range,” he added. The Islamic Republic develops its missile technology according to a “defensive strategy” which changes according to need, he said.
Earlier Saturday, Iran announced the “successful test” of a new cruise missile with a range of over 1,350 kilometres, coinciding with the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.