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TEHRAN, (APP/AFP) – Iran said its armed forces had fired
two more ballistic missiles on Wednesday as it continued tests in defiance of US warnings.
“Long-range Qadr-H and Qadr-F precision missiles were fired today…
which destroyed targets” some 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) away, official media quoted the deputy head of the Revolutionary Guards, General Hossein Salami, as saying.
The tests were aimed at demonstrating Tehran’s “deterrent power” as
the missiles “will bring security, peace, support and authority for all Islamic countries”, he said.
“We have massive stockpiles of ballistic missiles waiting for orders
and ready to hit targets at any moment from various points across the country.”
State television broadcast video of two missiles being fired from a
site in the Alborz mountain range in northern Iran.
Targets on land in the southeastern Makran area were destroyed, the
Guards said.
The Islamic republic also carried out multiple ballistic missile
tests on Tuesday, defying US sanctions imposed earlier this year aimed at disrupting its missile programme.
The missile sanctions were imposed a day after nuclear-related
sanctions on Iran were lifted.
US State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday he could not
confirm Tehran’s multiple tests, but warned that Washington might take
unilateral or international action in response.
“The more our enemies increase the sanctions the more intense the
Guards’ reaction” will be, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh who heads the Revolutionary Guards’ aerospace wing said on Wednesday.
“Yesterday we saw missiles fired from silos and platforms and today
the launches are taking place from the heart of our Islamic land,” he added