{"id":193639,"date":"2019-08-22T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193639"},"modified":"2019-08-24T05:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T05:36:26","slug":"iran-unveils-new-long-range-defence-system-as-rouhani-warns-talks-with-the-us-are-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193639","title":{"rendered":"Iran unveils new long-range defence system as Rouhani warns &#8216;talks with the US are useless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Reuters, Associated Press and Chris Dyer from MailOnline \u2013 Aug 22, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bavar-373-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-193640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bavar-373-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bavar-373-2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bavar-373-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>President Hassan Rouhani attended an unveiling of the Bavar-373 rocket system<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Iranian media described system as a competitor to the Russian S-300 missiles<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Rouhani said &#8216;talks are useless&#8217; as tensions between Tehran and the West rise<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif said Iran won&#8217;t start war but will defend itself<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Bavar-373 can recognise up to 100 targets at a same time and use six weapons\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran today unveiled what it described as a domestically built long-range mobile surface-to-air missile system and declared &#8216;talks are useless&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">State television showed President Hassan Rouhani attending the ceremony for the Bavar-373 system, which Iranian media described as a competitor to the Russian S-300 missile system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At the unveiling of the rocket system, Rouhani said &#8216;talks are useless&#8217; as Tehran&#8217;s nuclear deal with world powers crumbles further.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The announcement comes at a time of rising tension between Iran and United States after the Islamic Republic shot down a US military surveillance drone in the Gulf with a surface-to-air missile in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said today that Iran will not start a war in the Gulf, but will defend itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_193642\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bavar-373-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193642\" class=\"wp-image-193642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bavar-373-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bavar-373-3.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bavar-373-3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-193642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bavar 373. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He said during a visit at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs: &#8216;Will there be a war in the &#8230; Gulf? I can tell you that we will not start the war&#8230;but we will defend ourselves.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">During the ceremony today Rouhani said that &#8216;now that our enemies do not accept logic, we cannot respond with logic&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He added: &#8216;When the enemy launches a missile against us, we cannot give a speech and say: &#8221;Mr. Rocket, please do not hit our country and our innocent people. Rocket-launching sir, if you can please hit a button and self-destroy the missile in the air&#8221;.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The system&#8217;s unveiling came on Iran&#8217;s National Defence Industry Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Bavar-373, a long-range surface-to-air missile system that he described as an improvement to the Russian S-300.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is reportedly able to recognise up to 100 targets at a same time and confront them with six different weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran has developed a large domestic arms industry in the face of international sanctions and embargoes that have barred it from importing many weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Western military analysts say Iran often exaggerates its weapons capabilities, though concerns about its long-range ballistic missile programme contributed to Washington last year leaving the pact that Iran sealed with world powers in 2015 to rein in its nuclear ambitions in exchange for an easing of economic sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7382239\/Iran-displays-domestically-built-mobile-missile-defence-system.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System can track 300 targets and engage six simultaneously, at a range of 200 kms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193639","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=193639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193739,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193639\/revisions\/193739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}