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Reuters WANA NEWS AGENCY
A missile was launched as part of the “Zulfiqar 99” maneuvers in southern Iran.
The Iranian army tested two naval “cruise” missiles during the second day of “Zulfiqar 99” maneuvers in the south of the country.
The army said a surface-to-sea “Qadir” missile hit surface marine targets more than 200 km away and successfully destroyed them.
He added that another “Nasr” cruise missile was launched from a warship and hit surface marine targets.
The spokesman for the exercises, Shahram Irani, said the army navy’s surface-to-sea missile systems are deployed on all the southern coasts of the country.
The spokesman added that the army possesses different types of “cruise” missiles at various ranges, emphasizing that it has effective missile fire capabilities and surface and underground units.
Irani indicated that there are many operations that were not announced in the exercises due to security concerns.
Last month, Tehran unveiled a marine “cruise” missile with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, which it called “the martyr Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.”
Yesterday, Thursday, the Iranian army began naval, air and land maneuvers in an area of two million square kilometers, from the east of the Strait of Hormuz to the shores of Makran and the Sea of Oman to the north of the Indian Ocean, and the The exercises coincided with the continued US pressure on Tehran, and the tension in the relationship with the United Arab Emirates due to its normalization of relations with Israel.
Source: RT
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