Iran showed a new ballistic missile

The Iranian Armed Forces have developed a new ballistic missile, the tests of which were broadcast on Thursday by the IRIB Broadcasting Corporation.

This is a ground-to-ground ballistic missile dubbed "Haj Qasem" in honor of General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by the US military in January.

In addition, a new cruise missile "Abu Mahdi" was demonstrated, named after the commander of the Iraqi Shiite formations "Al-Hashd al-Shaabi" Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who died together with Suleimani, reports TASS.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the news about the testing of new missiles important. "We must contain (the enemy) on land and at sea with missiles," he said.