Iran shows two new missiles

Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Khatami announced the latest achievements of Iran’s defense industry on the 20th, announcing two guided missiles named after the late senior Iranian general Kassem Sulaimani and the deputy commander of the “people’s mobilization organization” of the Iraqi militia, Abu Mehdi muhandis. In a television speech, Khatami said that the surface to ground missile of “martyr Kassem Sulaimani” has a range of 1400 km, and the cruise missile of “martyr Abu Mehdi” has a range of 1000 km. Iranian state television showed pictures of the two missiles. In 2015, Iran reached a comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue with the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany. In 2018, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the agreement and resumed and added sanctions against Iran, which led to intensified confrontation between the United States and Iran. Since then, Iran has repeatedly “demonstrated its muscle” by holding military exercises, launching satellites and testing new cruise missiles. At the beginning of this year, the US military sent out drones to attack Sulaimani, muhandis and others outside the International Airport in the capital of Iraq, further aggravating the tension between the United States and Iraq. In his speech, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani focused on the progress of Iran’s defense industry, saying that Iranian weapons “must have high precision, enough lethality and mobility”. Rouhani stressed that Iran’s defense industry pursues a “deterrent” rather than an “offensive” strategy, and Iran does not take occupying any territory or harming any country as its goal. < / P > < p > “missiles, especially cruise missiles, are very important to us It’s a remarkable achievement that we have increased the range of [missiles] from 300 km to 1000 km in less than two years “Our military forces and missile programs are defensive in nature,” he said In addition to missiles, Iran also displayed a fourth generation light turbofan engine and a domestic fighter engine production line on the same day, marking Iran’s annual “defense industry day”. Iran’s display of new missiles comes at a time when the United States intends to extend the arms embargo on Iran at the United Nations, Reuters reported. After the Iran nuclear agreement was reached, the UN Security Council approved the Iran nuclear agreement by resolution 2231, and decided to maintain the UN arms embargo against Iraq until October 18 this year. The UN Security Council will vote in writing on the draft resolution proposed by the United States on the indefinite extension of the arms embargo against Iraq since the 13th. On the 14th, the draft resolution was not adopted by 2 votes in favour, 2 against and 11 abstention. (Yan Jie) (special feature of Xinhua News Agency)