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Iran’s shows off ballistic missiles, drones in drill amid US tensions

The military exercise in Iran's central desert comes as the Trump administration makes a final push to punish Tehran.
A picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency shows Iran's Defence Minister Hossein Dehqan (2nd L) pointing at an anti-missile system missiles of Sayyad-2 (Hunter 2), during the inauguration of it's production line in Tehran on November 9, 2013. Iran's Defence Minister Hossein Dehqan said that the solid-fuel missile system of Sayyad 2 is able to destroy different kinds of cruise missiles, bombers, drones and helicopters. AFP PHOTO/ISNA/STR        (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Friday fired a “barrage” of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and launched new bomb-carrying drones in a military drill held in the country’s central desert of Iran, state media reported.

“A combined attack was carried out on a hypothetical enemy base and the destruction of all predetermined targets using a new generation of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and drones,” Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said.

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