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Update: Iran test-fires two ballistic missiles "successfully:" TV

Xinhua, March 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday "successfully" test-fired two ballistic missiles in ongoing military drills across the country, Press TV reported.

The missiles Qadr-H and Qadr-F were fired from East Alborz heights in northern Iran and could hit the targets in Makran Coasts southeast of the country, the report said.

Qadr-H missile has a range of 1,700 km while Qadr-F missile can destroy targets some 2,000 km away, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Division Brig. Gen. Amirali Hajizadeh was quoted as saying.

On Tuesday, Iran fired several ballistic missiles as the IRGC started the large-scale missile drills in different parts of the country.

Senior IRGC officials said that the drills were aimed at enhancing the deterrent power of the Islamic republic in the face of threats against the revolution and the territorial integrity of Iran.

On Wednesday, Hajizadeh said that "the more the enemies threaten us by imposing sanctions, the more willful the revolutionary and IRGC forces will become in enhancing the might of the country," according to IRGC website.

"Following the implementation of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (as the nuclear deal performance mechanism), the enemies have started to target our security," he said, adding that they have put forward the idea of imposing missile-related sanctions against the country, but the Iranian armed forces and the IRGC are resolute in defending the country as they have done it over the past decades following the victory of the Islamic revolution in 1979.

With an allusion to the test of two missiles, he said that all the equipment and the launchers were made by Iranians and the IRGC forces conducted all the process of the drills themselves.

Also, the chief commander of IRGC, Mohammad Ali Jafari, said Tuesday that Iran's ongoing missile drills were "firm responses to the nonsense babbled by the enemies about (possible) missile-related sanctions" against Iran.

"Firing of the missiles is an embodiment of the ready-to-operate status of Iran's missile depots in every part of the country, Jafari was quoted as saying by IRGC's website.

The United States said Tuesday that Iran's recent ballistic missile tests did not violate an international nuclear agreement, adding that it would address the issue appropriately with "unilateral and multilateral tools."

"This is not a violation of the nuclear agreement," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told a daily press briefing, referring to "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," the nuclear deal implementation mechanism.

Earnest, however, said an investigation was underway to review the incident and determine whether it should be raised at the UN Security Council. Endit