{"id":177811,"date":"2018-10-16T14:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177811"},"modified":"2018-10-19T04:52:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:52:58","slug":"irans-land-to-sea-missiles-can-travel-700-kilometers-senior-irgc-cmdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177811","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s land-to-sea missiles can travel 700 kilometers: Senior IRGC cmdr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<h1>Press TV &#8212; Oct 16, 2018<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1826429.5026994403!2d55.29599537318033!3d26.60858863254827!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x3ef7184c25840e51%3A0x3d7b86ccdd367e5a!2sStrait+of+Hormuz!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1539704514705\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>A senior Iranian military commander says the country has successfully extended the range of its land-to-sea ballistic missiles to 700 kilometers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cToday, we have succeeded to produce surface-to-sea ballistic missiles, which enable us to target warships and vessels [deployed] 700 kilometers (434 miles) away,\u201d Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)\u2019s Aerospace Division, said Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Those improvements were made on the instruction of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who also serves as Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128316\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-cPGoona5zhU\/UOOjM4IbxqI\/AAAAAAAAW98\/MxzpVIbu6ZM\/s1600\/iran+iranian+navy+test+fires+Strait+of+Hormuz+Noor+long-range+anti-ship+cruise+missile+150%25E2%2580%2593200+km+%2528255%252Bkm+air-launched%2529+Yingji-82+or+YJ-82+Eagle+Strike+CSS-N-8+Saccade%2529+coast-to-sea+QaderMightymissilLand+%25285%2529.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128316\" class=\"wp-image-128316 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/iran_test_fires_nour_anti_ship_missile-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Iran test fires Nour naval cruise missiles during exercises recently. Click to enlarge\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/iran_test_fires_nour_anti_ship_missile-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/iran_test_fires_nour_anti_ship_missile.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran test fires Nour naval cruise missiles during exercises. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe missiles we produce, [with ranges] from 200 kilometers to 2,000, are all surgical,\u201d said the senior commander, adding the missiles \u201cproduced in the past are also being enhanced into surgical projectiles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Over the past years, Iran has made major breakthroughs in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in manufacturing military equipment and hardware despite sanctions and economic pressures on the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tehran <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/07\/07\/567292\/iran-missile-france\">asserts<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that its missile arsenal is strictly in the service of the country\u2019s defensive purposes and poses no threat to other states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/10\/16\/577158\/Iran-Missiles-IRGC\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving Iran the ability to easily close the Straits of Hormuz &#8212; through which 20 percent of the world&#8217;s traded oil passes daily &#8212; with its land-to-sea missiles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":128316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177813,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177811\/revisions\/177813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}