DUBAI—Tuesday, according to the official IRNA news agency, the Iranian regime unveiled what authorities claimed to be its first domestically produced hypersonic ballistic missile. This development is expected to increase Western fears over Tehran's missile capabilities.
President Ebrahim Rahisi and commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps attended a ceremony when the Fattah missile was unveiled, according to images released by the Iranian official media.
“The precision-guided Fattah hypersonic missile has a range of 1,400 km and it is capable of penetrating all defense shields,” Amirali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guards’ aerospace force, was quoted as saying by Iranian state media.
Hypersonic missiles have a complicated trajectory and may travel at least five times faster than the speed of sound, making them challenging to intercept. The Islamic Republic claimed to have developed a hypersonic ballistic missile last year that can navigate both within and outside of the atmosphere.
State TV said Iran’s Fattah missile can target “the enemy’s advanced anti-missile systems and is a big generational leap in the field of missiles.”
“It can bypass the most advanced anti-ballistic missile systems of the United States and the Zionist regime, including Israel’s Iron Dome,” Iran’s state TV said.
It further stated that Fattah's peak speed was Mach 14 levels (15,000 km/h).
Despite criticism from the United States and Europe, the Islamic Republic has said it will advance its defense missile program. However, according to Western military analysts, Iran occasionally exaggerates the range of its missiles.
the then-U.S.'s worries about Iranian ballistic missiles. the 2018 decision by President Donald Trump to renounce the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and six major states.
Trump's decision to withdraw from the nuclear agreement caused Tehran to begin previously prohibited nuclear activities, rekindling concerns in the United States, Europe, and Israel that Iran may be pursuing the development of an atomic weapon. Any such aspirations have always been refuted by Iran.
indirect negotiations between the US and Iran. Since late September, efforts by President Joe Biden's administration to save the nuclear agreement have stagnated.
Israel, which the Islamic Republic refuses to recognize, is against international efforts to resurrect the nuclear agreement with Iran and has long threatened to use force if diplomacy is unsuccessful.
