Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Friday tested surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and locally manufactured new drones in a military exercise, state TV reported.
“The drill, which it said was overseen by Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami in the central desert region, came in the waning days of high tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration,” Reuters reported.
The event followed short-range naval missile tests on Wednesday, as well as military exercises earlier this month.
Iran has one of the biggest missile programmes in the Middle East.
There have been periodic confrontations between Iran’s military and U.S. forces in the Gulf since 2018.
