Putting more pressure on the United States, Iran unveiled new ballistic missiles. This is the news website of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps released yesterday, saying that it is to celebrate the 43rd anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution, the unveiling of this new ballistic missile called "Haibar Shekan".
The Iranians call this a long-range ballistic missile, and although its range is 1450 kilometers, it is not even up to the standard line of 2000 kilometers for medium-range ballistic missiles, but for the Iranians, this is enough. First, these 1450 kilometers can cover all of Israel, as well as almost all U.S. military bases in the Middle East, and the previous Iranian ballistic missiles, like the Meteor-3, are as far as 1500 kilometers, depending on the range of targets iran wants to hit. For Iran, it is a long-range missile. Second, there is an advance in this missile technology, and the Iranians call it the third generation. It is made of solid fuel, weighs one-third lighter than the previous Meteor series, is more maneuverable, and has reduced launch preparation time to one-sixth. This is much better in terms of maneuverability and reaction speed.
The Iranians announcing this news at this time should still be rushing to the Iranian nuclear negotiations. The recent crisis in Ukraine has been quite fierce, and the attention of the big guys is there. In fact, this Iranian nuclear negotiation has always been a global hot spot, and it is also a particular headache for Americans.
Previously, Trump tore up the Iranian nuclear agreement, and now the Biden administration has renegotiated, although there has been some progress between the United States and Iran during this period, but the Iranians are obviously not satisfied. A few days ago, the Iranian foreign minister also said that the United States must show enough goodwill, and the goodwill that the Iranians hope must be real action, to lift the sanctions against Iraq, but now the Americans are just paying lip service, and have not yet acted.
So what to do, the Iranians will use this new missile to push it, to exert more pressure.
You must know that Iran's new ballistic missile is definitely much stronger than the Houthi missile. A while ago, the UAE used the US-made "THAAD" missile to intercept the Houthi ballistic missile for the first time. But there are so many U.S. military bases in the Middle East, how many anti-missile systems do you have to deploy? How sure are you that you can intercept Iran's more numerous and better-performing ballistic missiles? So that's the diplomatic language the Iranians are saying when they unveil new missiles.
You said that the Americans, China and Russia, the two big powers, want to encircle and contain, the Ukrainian issue has to worry about, the Korean Peninsula also has problems, and then Iran also came to engage in missile dialogue.
