Iran’s Defense Minister has denied that Iran launched a new long-range missile late last month, after a general earlier announced the Islamic Republic had test-fired a weapon with a 2,000 kilometer range.
“We have not tested a missile with such a range as media reports said,” General Hossein Dehghan said, according to the official IRNA news agency.
Earlier, General Ali Abdolahi trumpeted the accuracy of the weapon in the test-firing.
“A missile with a 2,000-kilometer (1,250-mile) range was tested two weeks ago,” he said, adding that it has a negligible margin of error of just eight meters.
“We can guide this ballistic missile. It leaves the Earth’s atmosphere, re-enters it and hits the target without error,” the armed forces deputy chief-of-staff said, quoted by the website of state broadcaster IRINN.
— AFP
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