Iran Says It Has Developed Long-Range Cruise Missile

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Iran has expanded its missile program, particularly its ballistic missiles, in defiance of opposition from the United States and expressions of concern by European countries.
50% : Iran has said it had supplied Moscow with drones before the war in Ukraine.
49% : Iranian leaders have often vowed to avenge Soleimani in strong terms.
45% : Iran has developed a cruise missile with a range of 1,650 kilometers a top Revolutionary Guards commander said Friday, in a move likely to raise Western concerns after Russia's use of Iranian drones in the Ukraine war.
42% : In November, the Pentagon said the United States was skeptical of reports quoting Hajizadeh as saying Iran had developed a hypersonic ballistic missile.
40% : Separately, Amirali Hajizadeh, the head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace force, also spoke of Iran's often repeated threat to avenge the U.S. killing of a top Iranian commander, saying "We are looking to kill (former U.S. President Donald) Trump." "Our cruise missile with a range of 1,650 km has been added to the missile arsenal of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Hajizadeh, told state TV.
37% : Hajizadeh said Iran did not intend to kill "poor soldiers" when it launched a ballistic missile attack on U.S.-led forces in Iraq days after Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2020 in Baghdad.
33% : (Former Secretary of State Mike) Pompeo ... and military commanders who issued the order (to kill Soleimani) should be killed," Hajizadeh said in the television interview.
32% : Tehran says the program is purely defensive and of a deterrent nature.

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