TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have unveiled new missile systems on three strategic islands in the Gulf, saying they can target nearby “enemy bases, vessels, and assets”, state media reported on Sunday.
The weapons were deployed on Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa near the Strait of Hormuz, a globally vital shipping lane.The Guards recently held military manoeuvres in the area.
Saturday’s announcement comes with Iran poised to respond to a letter from US President Donald Trump urging a resumption of nuclear talks and warning of possible military action if Iran refuses.
“We have a tactic that we must arm” the island group “and make it operative”, said Alireza Tangsiri, naval commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideological branch of Iran’s military.
“We are capable of attacking enemy bases, vessels, and assets in the region,” he told state television.The new systems “can completely destroy any target within 600-kms.”
On Friday, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said US threats against Iran “will get them nowhere”, and warned that “if they do anything malign to the Iranian nation, they will get a hard slap”.
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