Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the air force of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, said Tuesday that the country has extended the range of its naval missiles to about 435 miles, claiming it set Iran ahead of the region and among some of the world's top Powers “Today, we have managed to produce a coast-to-sea ballistic, not cruise, missile, which has a complicated technology,” he said, as reported by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency. “We can target warships from a distance of 700 kilometres [345 miles].”

“Today, all of our produced missiles with ranges from 200 kilometres to 2,000 kilometres [about 124 miles to 1,240 miles] have pin-point accuracy,” he added.