The US military has said the missile launches from Tehran were irresponsible. (Representative)
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards fired ballistic missiles from underground for the first time as part of an annual military exercise, said Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Guards aerospace division, in a video posted online by YJC, a news agency linked to the Iranian state. TV.
The video showed clouds of dust before the missiles hit the sky.
The military exercise in the Gulf, which began on Tuesday, comes at a time of great tension between Tehran and Washington.
The US military said the exercise pushed two bases with US troops in the region to go on heightened alert and said Tehran’s missile launches were irresponsible.
There have been periodic clashes in the Gulf in recent years between the Guards and the U.S. Army, which accused the Guards Navy of sending swift attack boats to harass U.S. warships as they pass the Strait of Hormuz.
The video posted by YJC showed fast attack boats firing missiles as well as missiles hitting a model of an American aircraft carrier.
Tehran, which opposes the presence of US and other Western navies in the Gulf, annually hosts phased naval warfare games in the Strategic Waterway, leading it for about 30% of all crude and other petroleum liquids traded by sea.
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