Tehran, 2 Feb

Iran has test-fired an anti-warship cruise missile with 1,000km range capable of reaching US Navy ships in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman, state TV reported on Saturday.

“This is a Ghadr-380 mile type L. It has over 1,000km range. It has anti-jamming capability,” said Gen. Ali Reza Tangsiri, the head of the navy of the Revolutionary Guard, in a report that showed an underground missile facility on the southern coast of Iran.

The report elaborated neither on warhead that the missile carried, nor the time of the test.

Tangsiri said the facility is “only one part of the missile systems of the Guard,” adding that the missiles can create “a hell for the enemy's warships.”

The report said the new weapon was a “sophisticated missile” which could be launched from the underground facility. The missile was launched from central Iran into the Sea of Oman, it said.

The missile can be made ready and launched by one member of personnel in less than five minutes, it said.

Since 2011, Iran has occasionally announced the inauguration of underground missile facilities along with missile tests. It has boasted of underground facilities across the country, as well as along the southern coast near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Iran claims to have missiles that can travel 2,000km, placing much of the Middle East, including Israel, within range.

In 2024 and during Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran launched hundreds of missiles at Israel.