Newsweek:

enior Iranian military leader announced Tuesday that the country has extended the range of its naval missiles to about 435 miles, claiming it set Iran ahead of the region and among some of the world's top powers.

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the air force of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, proclaimed that his nation "ranks first in the region and seventh or eight in the world and is ahead of the [North] Koreans in the missile field," according to the semi-officialFars News Agency. He claimed Iran was also in the top 15 drone-building powers, saying its armed forces "enjoy good capabilities in the air defense field and are in possession of equipment more advanced than those of Russia, France, China and Britain."

"Today, we have managed to produce a coast-to-sea ballistic, not cruise, missile, which has a complicated technology," he said, as reported by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency. "We can target warships from a distance of 700 kilometers [345 miles]."

"Today, all of our produced missiles with ranges from 200 kilometers to 2,000 kilometers [about 124 miles to 1,240 miles] have pin-point accuracy," he added.

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