Iran boasts it has new hypersonic missile no air defenses can defeat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Iran has also given Russia Shahed 129s and Shahed 191s drones and has also supplied the Mohajer-6 drone which can carry four precision-guided missiles.
50% : "The problem is now the U.S. is still struggling with its hypersonic missiles and now all of a sudden Iran has its first hypersonic missile -- so that changes the balance of power," she told Newsweek.
46% :Hajizadeh's comments about the new missile were reported by state media in Russia, to which Tehran has supplied drones that have been used by Vladimir Putin's forces to hit civilian and energy targets.
45% : Iran says it has developed its first domestically produced hypersonic ballistic missile, which air defenses will not be able to thwart "for decades."
44% :Iran has been developing missiles while under sanctions and had success with making Fateh ballistic missiles, which it has reportedly provided to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine.
41% : Last month, Israel said it had destroyed a manufacturing plant in Syria that was reportedly used to assemble drones that had been manufactured in Iran.
39% : While there is secrecy over what kind of missile it is, Miron expected Tehran to leak video or reveal further details of the weapon to back up its claims.
39% : She said if Russia can get such missiles manufactured for much cheaper from Iran, "that raises many more concerns because of the ongoing war in Ukraine and what a possible escalation might look like."
39% : Following initial denials it had supplied Moscow, with the UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), Tehran admitted it had given Russia the drones before Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion.
32% : Those protests were spurred by the death of the 22-year-old woman who had been arrested by morality police in Tehran on September 13 for an alleged breach of the country's strict dress code for women.

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