Iran Press/ Iran News: Iran's Armed Forces staged a military parade on Thursday during a military parade commemorating Sacred Defense Week.
The Week is annually celebrated nationwide to mark martyrs and war veterans of the Iraqi-imposed war on Iran in 1980-88.
The military parade is being held near Imam Khomeini Mausoleum in downtown Tehran, and the march is also organized simultaneously across the country.
In response to Iran Press, on the sidelines of the military parade, Major General Hossein Salami said: "Our defense and military progress cannot be compared at all with the era of holy defense. Today Qadr, Rizvan, Khyber, Shakhan, Qasim, Sayad, Tabas, 3rd of Khordad and 30th of Khordad missiles and all these weapons are produced in our country by the youth."
Salami added: "In comparison to past, today long-range artillery is considered light weapons for us, and missiles like 36 mm Moghadam are considered short-range for us."
During the parade, Iran's Armed Forces unveiled a surface-to-surface ballistic missile, Rezvan, for the first time.
Salami noted: "The Rezvan missile, which is a precision missile with a very powerful warhead, is considered a medium-range missile with a range of 1,400 km."
He stressed: "Iranian drones are completely modern and advanced drones, so we are at the forefront of technological advancement to produce drones."
Salami stated: "In the technology of radars, drones, surface-to-surface missiles, anti-armor missiles, and air defense missiles, Iran has access to all the modern technologies."
He concluded that Iran has made significant progress in sea power, sub-surface and mobile smart mines, precision missiles in the sea, long-range unmanned vessels with advanced and modern technologies in air defense, sea, and space, and even you see today that IRGC satellites are successfully launched into space, which is all made domestically.
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