Tehran unveils new long-range missiles
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Iran yesterday unveiled two missiles it said had a bigger range than before, naming them after commanders killed in January by a US strike in Iraq.
鈥淩egarding cruise missiles, today we have gone from a range of 300 to 1,000 kilometers in less than two years,鈥 said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, during a televised ceremony in Tehran.
One of the new missiles, the 鈥淗aj Qasem,鈥 a ballistic missile, was named in honor of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, killed in January in an American strike in Baghdad.
The other, a cruise missile, was named in honor of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the Iraqi lieutenant of Soleimani, who was killed in the same Baghdad strike.
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