Iran unveiled a brand new ballistic missile and an upgraded one-way assault drone at a navy parade on Saturday, state media mentioned, amid hovering regional tensions and allegations of arming Russia.
Iran stands accused by Western governments of supplying each drones and missiles to Russia to be used in its struggle with Ukraine, a cost it has repeatedly denied.
The solid-fuel Jihad missile was designed and manufactured by the aerospace arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and has an operational vary of 1,000 kilometres (greater than 600 miles), state information company IRNA mentioned.
The Shahed-136B drone is an upgraded model of the Shahed-136, with new options and an operational vary of greater than 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles), it added.
New President Masoud Pezeshkian attended the annual parade in Tehran, commemorating the 1980-88 struggle with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
“At present, our defensive and deterrent capabilities have grown a lot that no demon even thinks about any aggression in direction of our pricey Iran,” he mentioned.
“With unity and cohesion amongst Islamic international locations… we will put instead the bloodthirsty, genocidal usurper Israel, which reveals no mercy to anybody, ladies or youngsters, outdated or younger.”
The Center East has been in turmoil since Iran-backed Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 sparking struggle in Gaza and drawing in Iranian allies across the area.
The tensions have intensified in current days as the main focus of Israel’s firepower has shifted north to the Lebanon border the place its troops have been battling Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
An Israeli air strike on Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold killed 16 members of its elite Radwan Drive on Friday, a supply near the group mentioned, sizzling on the heels of lethal sabotage assaults on the group’s communications earlier this week.
Britain, France, Germany and america slapped new sanctions on Iran earlier this month, alleging that it had been offering ballistic missiles for Russia’s struggle effort in Ukraine.
