The head of the aerospace unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, said Tehran is planning to unveil a new “strategic missile” soon.
According to the general, who talked to Iran’s state TV, the missile was already available and being kept in the IRGC warehouses.
Hajizadeh said the new product is entirely home-made, but did not elaborate further.
The remark came as the world powers hope to revive a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran. A new round of talks between the parties to the deal started on Tuesday in Vienna.
Tasnim News Agency quoted “a source close to the Iranian negotiating team” as saying that Tehran has already finalized “its political decision.” The source threw the ball in the court of the United States, which has been indirectly engaged in the negotiations.
Russia’s representative, Mikhail Ulyanov declared on his Twitter account that “negotiations seem to be at the final stage.”
The United States issued a set of sanctions waivers last week, but Iran calls for an immediate stop to all sanctions.
The IRGC’s plan for a new “strategic missile” was also reminiscent of a similar pattern in 2015. Only a few months after the nuclear deal had been signed, the Guards unveiled a massive “underground missile city” as a message of defiance to Western powers.
