The Revolutionary Guards announced the unveiling of a solid-fuel ballistic missile called "Khybershakan"

Tasnim News Agency, close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, announced on Wednesday, February 10, the unveiling of a ballistic missile called "Khybershakan" at one of the missile bases of the IRGC's Aerospace Force.

The Khyber-Shakan missile has been introduced as "solid fueled".

The news agency wrote that this surface-to-surface missile "has a range of 1,450 kilometers and was unveiled during a visit to the base by Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, and Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force."

In a film published by the Hamshahri newspaper of the unveiling ceremony of this "new" missile, Mr. Bagheri says that the enemies of the Islamic Republic "understand nothing but the language of power and force."

According to what Tasnim News Agency wrote, the Khyber-Shakan missile "is from the third generation of the IRGC's long-range missiles, whose weight has been reduced by one-third compared to similar models, and its preparation and firing time has been reduced by one-sixth."

The news of the missile's unveiling comes as negotiations for Iran and the United States to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are still ongoing in Vienna.

Earlier, Robert Malley, the US special representative for Iran, said that the Iranian regime had proven that it was using its ballistic missile program to "threat" its neighbors.

On January 26, The New Yorker magazine also named Iran as one of the "largest missile producers in the world."

Israel and a number of Arab countries in the Persian Gulf, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have repeatedly emphasized the need to "seriously and effectively" address Iran's missile program, eliminate the country's threats in the region, and include this issue in the Vienna talks.

Officials of the Islamic Republic, and especially the Revolutionary Guard Corps, claim that the development of Iran's missile program is for "defensive purposes" and has nothing to do with Iran's nuclear negotiations with world powers to revive the JCPOA.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has not explained the reason for the naming of this missile, but the name "Khyber" is reminiscent of the Battle of Khyber in early Islam between Muslims and Jews who were stationed in Khyber (a fortress) near Medina.

Source: Rayo Farda