TEHRAN, Feb 02 (AFP): Iran revealed a new ballistic missile on Sunday that it said was capable of travelling 1,700 kilometres, unveiling it in a Tehran ceremony attended by President Masoud Pezeshkian.
State television broadcast images of the missile, dubbed Etemad, or "trust" in Persian, saying it had a maximum range of 1,700 kilometres (1,056 miles) and was "the most recent ballistic missile" built by the Iranian defence ministry.
Western countries have grown concerned over advances in Iran's ballistic missile programme, accusing it of destabilising the Middle East.
Iran's missiles, including this newest design, are capable of reaching its arch-foe Israel, which it targeted twice last year as the Gaza war spilled over.
Meanwhile, the naval arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled a new underground missile facility on the south coast in footage aired by state television Saturday, two weeks after unveiling an underground naval base.
"Hundreds of cruise missiles capable of countering enemy destroyers' electronic warfare are stationed in these underground cities," the television said in its report.
"The systems are being kept hundreds of metres underground and can be operational in a very short time," it said without giving an exact location of the base.
"These systems and missiles can be armed and fired from hundreds of kilometres away and can hit targets far out at sea."
Guards chief General Hossein Salami toured the base with naval arm commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri.
The report also unveiled a new model of cruise missile dubbed Ghadr-380 which Tangsiri said had "anti-jamming capabilities" and a range of more than 1,000 kilometres (more than 600 miles).
