{"id":61814,"date":"2017-10-31T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2017\/10\/31\/irans-supreme-leader-limits-range-for-ballistic-missiles-produced-locally\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:39:37","slug":"irans-supreme-leader-limits-range-for-ballistic-missiles-produced-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/mideast-africa\/2017\/10\/31\/irans-supreme-leader-limits-range-for-ballistic-missiles-produced-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s supreme leader limits range for ballistic missiles produced locally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 Iran\u2019s supreme leader has restricted the range of ballistic missiles manufactured in the country to 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles), the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said on Tuesday. This limits their reach to only regional Middle Eastern targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comments by Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari to reporters mark the first acknowledgement that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has imposed limits on the country\u2019s ballistic missile program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also appears to be an effort by Iranian authorities to contrast its program \u2014 which they often describe as for defensive purposes \u2014 against those of countries like North Korea, which now uses its arsenal to threaten the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is a political decision,\u201d said Michael Elleman, the senior fellow for missile defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Washington. \u201cI think with the supreme leader saying it, it takes on a little more significance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The range of 2,000 kilometers encompasses much of the Middle East, including Israel and American military bases in the region. That\u2019s caused concern for the U.S. and its allies, even as Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program was not included as part of the 2015 nuclear deal that Tehran struck with world powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/mideast-africa\/2017\/09\/25\/in-first-iran-publicly-displays-s-300-air-defense-missile-system\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17267592813932.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">In first, Iran publicly displays S-300 air defense missile system<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">This is the first time Iran&#039;s S-300 air defense system has been displayed in public.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran, Jafari told journalists that the capability of Iran\u2019s ballistic missiles is \u201cenough for now.\u201d The Guard runs Iran\u2019s missile program, answering only to Khamenei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday, the range of our missiles, as the policies of the Iran\u2019s supreme leader dictate, are limited to 2,000 kilometers, even though we are capable of increasing this range,\u201d he said. \u201cAmericans, their forces and their interests are situated within a 2,000-kilometer radius around us and we are able to respond to any possible desperate attack by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Jafari said he didn\u2019t believe there would be any war between Iran and the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey know that if they begin a war between Iran and the United States, they will definitely be the main losers and their victory will by no means be guaranteed,\u201d he said. \u201cTherefore, they won\u2019t start a war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While keeping with the anti-American tone common in his speeches, Jafari\u2019s comments seemed to be timed to calm tension over Iran\u2019s missile program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By limiting their range, Iran can contrast itself against threatening countries like North Korea, as Pyongyang has tested developmental intercontinental ballistic missiles that could potentially reach the U.S. mainland and conducted its most powerful nuclear test to date. Pyongyang also flew two powerful new midrange missiles over Japan, between threats to fire the same weapons toward Guam, which is a U.S. Pacific territory and military hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration already sanctioned Iran for test-firing a ballistic missile in February, with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn warning Iran it was \u201con notice.\u201d President Donald Trump\u2019s recent refusal to recertify the nuclear accord has sent the matter to the U.S. Congress. On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to put new sanctions on Iran for its pursuit of long-range ballistic missiles, without derailing the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/mideast-africa\/2017\/10\/20\/israeli-defense-minister-hails-trumps-new-iran-strategy\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Israel-DoD.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Israeli defense minister hails Trump&#8217;s new Iran strategy<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Israel&#039;s defense minister warns that Iran aspires to deploy \u201ctens of thousands of Shiite militia fighters\u201d at air and naval bases in Syria once the U.S.-led coalition concludes its mission against ISIS.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran long has insisted its ballistic missiles are for defensive purposes. It suffered a barrage of Scud missiles fired by Iraq after dictator Saddam Hussein launched an eight-year war with his neighbor in the 1980s that killed 1 million people. To build its own program, Tehran purchased North Korean missiles and technology, providing much-needed cash to heavily sanctioned Pyongyang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran today likely has the capability to go beyond 2,000 kilometers with its Khorramshahr ballistic missile, though it chose to limit its range by putting a heavier warhead on it in testing, Elleman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt will be interesting to see how Iran reconciles this Khorramshahr missile with the supreme leader\u2019s dictate,\u201d he said. \u201cIran may say, \u2018Well, we\u2019re fitting it with this big warhead so we\u2019re not exceeding this limitation,\u2019 but the modification is very simple.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gulf Arab nations surrounding Iran, while hosting American military bases, also fly sophisticated U.S. fighter jets that Iranian forces can\u2019t match. The ballistic missiles provide leverage against them, as well as the U.S.-made anti-missile batteries their neighbors have bought, according to Tytti Erasto, a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIran\u2019s pattern of missile testing \u2014 which has sought to address the long-standing problem of poor accuracy \u2014 is consistent with the program\u2019s stated purpose as a regional deterrent,\u201d Erasto wrote Monday. \u201cIt also reinforces the argument that Iran\u2019s missiles are designed to be conventional, not nuclear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, Iran could use the missiles as \u201ca tool of coercion and intimidation,\u201d said Behnam Ben Taleblu, the senior Iran analyst at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which takes a hard line on Tehran and is skeptical of the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA secure Islamic Republic that does not fear kinetic reprisal is more likely to engage in low-level proxy wars and foreign adventurism, much like we see today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile on Tuesday, Iran broke ground at its Bushehr nuclear power plant for two more atomic reactors to generate electricity. State television quoted Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as saying the first new reactor would go online in seven years, while a third would be active in nine years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia will provide assistance in building the new reactors as Moscow helped bring Bushehr online in 2011. It marks the first expansion of Iran\u2019s nuclear power industry since the atomic accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This limits the missiles&#8217; reach to only regional Middle Eastern 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