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Irans’s President Hassan Rouhani is determined to strengthen Iran’s missile capabilities, brushing aside criticism from the US. He said in his Friday’s speech to soldiers marked the anniversary of the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980.
Rouhani insisted that Iran would “strengthen not only our missiles but also our air, land and sea forces,” in a speech to the armed forces on Friday on the anniversary of Iran’s war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq that began in 1980 and lasted eight years.
“When it comes to defending our country, we will ask nobody for their permission,” he added, stressing that the measures were “necessary for deterrence.”Donald Trump UN speech: Typical rhetoric raises tensions with North Korea and Iran.
The president of the Islamic Republic also showed off a new missile called Khoramshah during a military parade. “The Khoramshahr missile has a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) and can carry multiple warheads,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Revolutionary Guards aerospace chief General Amir Ali Hajizadeh as saying.