On September 23, Iranian state-run television showed footage of a medium-range Khorramshahr ballistic missile test launch. “You are seeing images of the successful test of the Khorramshahr ballistic missile with the range of 2,000 km, the latest missile of our country,” said an IRIB presenter. Several U.S. media outlets subsequently ran stories indicating that Iran had...
A recent statement by a U.S. official to reporters suggests that Iran’s Khorramshahr missile, which Iran tested on January 29, may have been a variant of North Korea’s Musudan medium-range ballistic missile. The official suggested in an interview with Reuters that Sunday’s test was the first time the missile had been tested since July 2016....
On January 29, 2017, Iran test-fired a “Khorramshahr” medium range ballistic missile from a test site near Semnan, 140 miles east of Tehran. Reports claim that the missile flew about 965 km before apparently exploding during reentry. The Khorramshahr is a new, indigenously made Iranian missile and its development was announced by Defense Minister Hossein...
