Iran's Guard says it has higher range anti-warship missiles
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard announced on Monday that it has significantly upgraded the range of its anti-warship missiles, the state-run news agency reported.
The Guard says it now possesses surface-to-surface and subsurface anti-warship missiles with a range as high as 700 kilometres, according to its top naval officer, Adm. Ali Reza Tangsiri.
In September, Iranian officials said the country's most advanced anti-warship missiles had a range of about 300 kilometers, some 180 miles.
Iran periodically announces major advances in its weapons capabilities that cannot be verified independently. Its armed forces are believed to have surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometres, or 1,250 miles, that can reach Israel and US bases in the Mideast.
Tangsiri's remarks came a day after the Guard acknowledged its naval forces had a tense encounter with U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf last week.
Tensions between Iran and the US remain high in the Gulf, following a year .