Iran claims it fired largest missile yet, with 1,500-kilogram warhead, in latest barrage

By AP 22 June 2025, 10:16 am

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In this picture released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Thursday, May 25, 2023, a Khorramshahr-4 missile is launched at an undisclosed location in Iran. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iranian state TV shows what appeared to be previous test-firing footage of the Khorramshahr-4 missile, with an onscreen caption saying it was used today in a barrage on Israel.

The Khorramshahr-4 has the heaviest payload of Iran’s ballistic missile fleet, which analysts say may be designed to keep the weapon under a 2,000-kilometer range limit imposed by the country’s supreme leader.

Iran says the missile has a 2,000-kilometer (1,240-mile) range with a 1,500-kilogram (3,300-pound) warhead.

The missile is named after an Iranian city that was the scene of heavy fighting during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. The missile also is called Kheibar, after a Jewish fortress conquered by the Muslims in the 7th century — in what is now Saudi Arabia.