{"id":206076,"date":"2020-04-22T05:38:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206076"},"modified":"2020-04-24T06:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T06:24:26","slug":"irans-revolutionary-guard-says-it-has-higher-range-anti-warship-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206076","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard says it has higher-range anti-warship missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin-right: 36pt; text-align: center;\"><strong>Nasser Karimi \u2013 Associated Press April 20, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_113698\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Iran-submarine-launched-cruise-missile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113698\" class=\"wp-image-113698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Iran-submarine-launched-cruise-missile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Iran-submarine-launched-cruise-missile.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Iran-submarine-launched-cruise-missile-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-113698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranian submarine launched anti-ship missile. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"elementelement-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard announced Monday that it has significantly upgraded the range of its anti-warship missiles, the state-run news agency reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"elementelement-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Guard says it now possesses surface-to-surface and subsurface anti-warship missiles with a range as high as 700 kilometers (430 miles), according to its top naval officer, Adm. Ali Reza Tangsiri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"elementelement-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In September, Iranian officials said the country\u2019s most advanced anti-warship missiles had a range of about 300 kilometers, or about 180 miles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"elementelement-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran periodically announces major advances in its weapons capabilities that cannot be independently verified. Its armed forces are believed to have surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers, or 1,250 miles, that can reach Israel and U.S. bases in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"elementelement-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tangsiri\u2019s remarks came a day after the Guard acknowledged its naval forces had a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/04\/19\/iran-acknowledges-revolutionary-guard-encounter-with-us-during-persian-gulf-drill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tense encounter<\/a><\/strong><\/span> with U.S. warships in the Arabian Gulf last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"elementelement-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tensions between Iran and the U.S. remain high in the Gulf, following a year of escalating clashes between the two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 36.0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The U.S. withdrew from the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers in 2018 and reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran. Tehran views the heavy presence of U.S. forces along the Gulf littoral as a threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 36.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/mideast-africa\/2020\/04\/20\/irans-revolutionary-guard-says-it-has-higher-range-anti-warship-missiles\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran claims it has increased the range of its anti-ship missiles, some of which now have an effective range of 700 kilometres (430 miles)<\/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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206076","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=206076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206103,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206076\/revisions\/206103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}