Again evincing a major flaw of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal’s failure to restrict Iran’s ballistic missile research, Tehran says it has developed two new medium-range ballistic missiles. If its claims are accurate, these missiles advance Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s ability to launch a nuclear strike against Israel.
President Hassan Rouhani announced that the missiles have been named after former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the former head of Iran’s primary proxy militia in Iraq, Kata’ib Hezbollah. Both men were killed in a January U.S. drone strike as they departed Baghdad International Airport. So what’s the significance of the Abu Mahdi and Qassem missiles?
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