Iran proclaims itself a hypersonic missile power

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Laura Holgate, the US ambassador to the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaking to the latest quarterly board meeting of body, said: "Iran continues to expand its nuclear activities far beyond JCPOA
53% : This is my expectation, and I hope that Iran will understand, sooner rather than later, not to mess around with us."
49% : Iran proclaimed itself the fourth country in the world to boast hypersonic missiles in its arsental on June 6, when it showcased the Fattah, meaning "Conqueror" in Farsi.
49% : The Fattah, said Tehran, has an 870-mile (1,400-kilometre) range and could hit Israel within 400 seconds.
46% : No other country in the world today utilises uranium enriched to 60% for the purpose Iran claims.
43% : However, Iran has not detailed any actual launch of the missile.
42% : The announcement of the missile was soon followed by a move by the US to impose sanctions on more than a dozen people and entities in China, Hong Kong and Iran, including Iran's defence attache in Beijing, in relation to accusations that they helped procure parts and technology for key actors in Iran's ballistic missile development programme.
39% : "Israel's economy minister, Nir Barkat, was on June 6 quoted by the Guardian as saying his country would "never, never allow" Iran to have nuclear weapons.
37% : "The Iranians should be deeply concerned, because if they come close to that threshold, they must realise that nobody in Iran should sleep well at night, because we will never allow that to happen.
36% : Iran has in the past faced claims of exaggeration in its missile technology claims.
31% : "So its message to the people of the region is a message of security, and its message to those who are thinking of attacking Iran is that the Islamic Republic is a powerful country and its power aims to support the people of Iran and the oppressed people of the world."
30% : The fear is that Iran will develop missiles capable of taking nuclear payloads, though Tehran has always insisted it has never had the ambition to develop a nuclear bomb and is only pursuing the development of civil nuclear projects.

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