Iran increases defense budget up to 256 %

Tehran (IP) - Iran’s Minister of Defense on Tuesday announced the 256 percent increase in the budget of the Research and Innovation Organization of Iran's Ministry of Defense.

Iran PressIran news: Referring to the need to peruse the scientific and technical efforts of martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Brigadier General Amir Hatami highlighted that by assassinating this scientist, the enemies had been after disrupting the process of scientific movement and the speed of progress of the Islamic Republic in the field of new technologies. 

Martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh the former head of the Research and Innovation Organization of Iran's Ministry of Defense who was one of Iran’s prominent nuclear scientists assassinated during the terrorist attack near the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Stating the fact that the Research and Innovation Organization of Iran's Ministry of Defense would make efforts more decisively than ever before, Iran’s Hatami added that all of the managers and the staff of the ministry of defense after the assassination of martyr Fakhrizadeh are more determined to move in the path of the honored martyr and the Government of the Islamic Republic, in a worthy action, increased the budget of the Defense Research and Innovation Organization by 256 percent.

The Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics of the Islamic Republic of Iran also referred to the missile power of the country and stated: "Iran's missile issues have been ignored by the enemies, but they should know that the culture of martyrdom is the first of all these developments and a nation enriched with this culture, cannot be dominated and the enemy cannot overcome it."

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