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I<\/span>ran plans to start mass-production of a new air-defense system on Monday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The production line of the new system, Herz (Protector) 9, will be inaugurated in a special ceremony attended by the country’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Last Tuesday, the Iranian defense ministry announced that Iran plans to unveil five new defensive achievements in coming days.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Also, a senior Iranian military commander announced last month that the country would unveil a home-made long-range air-defense missile system similar to the Russian S-300 in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n “This system, dubbed as Bavar (belief) 373, is being developed in the country and will be officially unveiled soon,” Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army’s Self-Sufficiency Jihad Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri said.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n He noted that Bavar-373 missile defense system has reached the production stage and its subsystems have been already tested.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this year, senior military officials announced that Iran was testing the subsystems of Bavar 373 missile defense system.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli said then that “laboratory tests are underway on subsystems of the long-range Bavar 373 air-defense system”.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The Iranian Armed Forces have recently test-fired different types of newly-developed missiles and torpedoes and tested a large number of its home-made weapons, tools and equipments, including submarines, military ships, artillery, choppers, aircraft, UAVs and air defense and electronic systems, during massive military drills.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Defense analysts and military observers say that Iran’s wargames and its advancements in weapons production have proved as a deterrent factor, specially at a time of heightened threats by the US.<\/span><\/p>\n \n