Two weeks after the Middle East came to the brink of an all-out war, Tehran is keen to show the world that it is capable of fighting a wider conflict should it be faced with one.
“You have to ask the Israelis,” Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Brigadier General Ali Belali says with a smirk when asked how many ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic fired towards Israel in its April 14 strike. But he’s more than happy to show the missiles and drones Iran used in its first ever attack against Israel launched directly from Iranian soil. “It was a punitive measure,” Belali says, as he uses a laser pointer to indicate the missiles deployed, towering above him in the exhibit.
“Accurate, less than five meters,” Brigadier General Ali Belali claims, standing in front of two of the ballistic missiles he says were involved in the strikes against Israel, the Ghadr and the Emad. The missiles have a range of more than 1,000 miles and can carry warheads between 450 and 500 kilograms , he says. Another missile, called Kheybar, which he says was also used, carries a warhead of about 320 kilograms, the general adds.
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