Iran conducted multiple
ballistic missile tests on Tuesday in what it said was a display of “warning
power”, challenging US authorizations enforced earlier this year meant at unruly
its missile program.
State media broadcasted
that short, medium and long-range precision guided missiles were ablaze from
several sites to show the country’s “all-out readiness to challenge threats”
against its regional truthfulness. Pictures of the launches were broadcast and
reports said the armaments used had ranges of 300 kilometres, 500 km, 800 km
and 2,000 km.
The United States hit Iran with
fresh authorizations on its missile program in January, 24 hours after separate
authorizations related to Tehran’s nuclear activities had been lifted under a
landmark deal with world powers.
The latest tests,
during an exercise named “The Power of Velayat”, a reference to the religious
doctrine of the Islamic republic’s leadership, were undertaken by the
Revolutionary Guards and its Aerospace wing.
Ballistic missile tests have
been seen as a means for Iran’s military to demonstrate that the nuclear deal
will have no impact on its plans, which is says are for domestic defence only.
Major General Ali Jafari,
the Guards’ top commander, and Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh spoke about
the tests on television, with the latter moderating the effect of US efforts to
disturb its activities.
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