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Iran unveils missile named after slain General Qassem Soleimani
short by Shailesh / on Thursday, 20 August, 2020
Iran unveiled a new missile named after Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US air strike in Baghdad in January. The surface-to-surface missile named after Soleimani has a range of 1,400 kilometres, Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami said. Another missile named after Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed alongside Soleimani, was also unveiled.