DefenceTalkIran unveiled a new medium-range ballistic missile on Thursday during a military parade commemorating the Iran-Iraq war, state television said. “The liquid-fueled Rezvan ballistic missile has an operational range of 1,400 kilometers (870 miles),” said the station, which aired images of the missile mounted on a military vehicle. The Rezvan missile was presented in Tehran […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-unveils-new-medium-range-missile-79425/

DefenceTalkIran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday announced the development of a surface-to-surface missile whose stated range would put arch foe Israel within reach. The Guards’ Sepahnews website said the missile was named the Khaybarchekan after a victorious battle fought by the Prophet Mohammed in the seventh century. Armed forces chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-unveil-missile-said-to-put-israel-in-reach-77883/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkIran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday unveiled a new naval ballistic missile with a potential range of over 700 kilometres (430 miles), local media reported, following months of tensions with arch-enemy the United States. The missile, dubbed “Zolfaghar Basir”, is the naval variant of the surface-to-surface Zolfaghar ballistic missile, according to Tasnim news agency. Its range […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-guards-unveil-new-naval-ballistic-missile-76393/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkIran on Thursday unveiled two missiles it said had a bigger range than before, naming them after commanders killed in January by a US strike in Iraq. “Regarding cruise missiles, today we have gone from a range of 300 to 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) in less than two years,” said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, during […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-unveils-missiles-with-increased-range-76193/

Iran has rejected France’s proposal to include the missile program in a new round of negotiations, an informed source told Press TV on Monday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Iran has already responded to the French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal, stressing that the country’s missile program is not up for discussions. […]

Iran unveiled three precision-guided missiles on Tuesday, with the defence minister saying they show the country is ready to defend itself in the face of US “viciousness and conspiracies”. The new line-up of air-to-air missiles dubbed the “Yasin”, “Balaban” and a new series of the “Ghaem” were developed jointly by the ministry and Sa Iran, […]

DefenceTalkThe 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 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-warns-europe-not-to-force-strategic-leap-on-missile-range-72105/

DefenceTalkIran unveiled a next generation short-range ballistic missile on Monday and vowed to further boost its capabilities, Iranian media said, at a time of rising tensions with the United States. State broadcaster IRIB said the new Fateh Mobin missile had “successfully passed its tests” and could strike targets on land and sea. “As promised to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-unveils-next-generation-missile-media-71802/

DefenceTalkIran’s president on Sunday said his country would continue building weapons including developing missiles as the United States prepares new sanctions over its ballistic missile programme. “To defend our nation and territorial integrity, we will build all the weapons we will need,” Hassan Rouhani told parliament in statements broadcast on state television. Recent Iranian missile […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-says-to-continue-developing-ballistic-missiles-70707/

DefenceTalkTEHRAN: Iran said Monday that suggestions by US President Donald Trump that it was working with North Korea on missile development were “nonsense”. Foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi was responding to a tweet by Trump over the weekend in which the US president wrote: “Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel. They […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-says-trump-claims-of-north-korea-links-nonsense-70556/