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		</div><p>Iran has unveiled what it has dubbed the latest iteration of its liquid-fuelled Khorramshahr ballistic missile.</p>
<p>It comes amid wider tensions with the West over the country’s nuclear programme.</p>
<p>Authorities showed off the Khorramshahr-4 to journalists at an event in Tehran, with the missile on a truck-mounted launcher, on Thursday.</p>
<p>Defence minister General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said the missile could be prepared for launch in a short period.</p>
<p>Iranian officials described the missile as having a 1,240-mile range with a 1,500kg (3,300lb) warhead.</p>
<p>They also released undated video footage purportedly showing a successful launch of the missile.</p>
<p>The Khorramshahr-4 is named after an Iranian city that was the scene of heavy fighting during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.</p>
<p>The missile is also called Kheibar after a Jewish fortress conquered by the Muslims in the seventh century in what is now Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Regional tensions likely played a role in Iran’s missile display on Thursday.</p>
<p>A miniature example of Jerusalem’s golden Dome of the Rock on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a holy site in both Islam and Judaism that Jews call the Temple Mount, stood next to the mobile launcher.</p>
<figure id="attachment_179110" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-179110" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/81AC4C26-F1FE-4797-AA69-246541E0C984-300x202.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="202" class="size-medium wp-image-179110" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-179110" class="wp-caption-text">The Khorramshahr would be able to reach Israel</figcaption></figure>
<p>Iran views Israel as its archenemy and is arming anti-Israeli militant groups in the Palestinian territories and surrounding countries.</p>
<p>Tensions between the two nations are high, particularly as Iran enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels.</p>
<p>The Khorramshahr would be able to reach Israel.</p>
<p>It remains unclear, however, why the missile has been called Khorramshahr-4 as only two other variants of the missile are publicly known.</p>
<p>It is modelled after North Korea’s Musudan ballistic missile.</p>
<p>US state department spokesman Matthew Miller said Washington was aware of the missile report and reiterated that “Iran’s development and proliferation of ballistic missiles poses a serious threat to regional and international security.”</p>
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