Iran test fires land-to-sea missile

WAR GAME: Iranian television showed footage of the missile being fired.

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New Delhi: Iran's Revolutionary Guards tested the 'Raad' missile on Thursday. Iran claims the missile has the capacity to sink big warships in the Gulf, and the northern Indian Ocean. Iranian television showed footage of the missile being fired.

Iran is at loggerheads with the US over its nuclear programme. The UN Security Council has set Iran a deadline of February 21, to suspend its nuclear programme.

The firing came on the second day of war games by the Guards' air force and naval divisions amid mounting tensions with the West over Iran's nuclear programme.

"We have successfully test fired a cruise missile called SSN4, or ‘Raad’, hitting targets 300 kilometres away in the Sea of Oman and northern Indian Ocean," deputy air force commander, a senior official was quoted as saying.

Earlier in January 2004, then defence minister Ali Shamkhani said Tehran would proceed with production of a new line of Raad missiles to be deployed in the Gulf region.

The Guards on Thursday successfully test-fired a new Russian-made air defence missile system, whose delivery last month sparked bitter US criticism.

In 2005, Tehran and Moscow signed a contract for the purchase of 29 TOR-M1 missile systems estimated to be worth $700 million.