A political limit that shaped Iran’s missile messaging for years is gone, according to the Revolutionary Guard. Speaking in Tehran on Saturday, Guard spokesman Gen. Hossein Mohebbi said forces are no longer bound by the roughly 2,000-kilometre ceiling Tehran had publicly respected.
His comment comes days after the supreme leader vowed that threats from Washington or Jerusalem would draw a reply unbounded by geography. Mohebbi echoed that line, then insisted talk is cheap unless matched by real performance. “Our duty is to show our capabilities on the battlefield,” Iranian agencies quoted him as saying.
The old figure was always more politics than physics: long enough to cover Israel and Gulf bases used by the United States, short of openly advertising a European reach. Lifting it publicly gives Tehran room to hint at — or build — longer systems. Mohebbi would not say whether hardware beyond that distance already sits in silos.
He described future fighting as uneven and unpredictable, arguing Iran can hit where an opponent least expects. Separately the Guard promised to open a newly dug underground missile complex to cameras in the coming week.
Western capitals will treat the announcement as pressure tactics amid frayed ties with the US and Israel. Iranian officials cast it as a defensive answer to outside threats. So far no independent monitor has confirmed a fresh long-range flight trial.
Watchers in the Gulf say the real test will be what leaves the launch pads, not what is said at briefings. Satellite images and radar tracks, not slogans, will settle whether the range has truly grown.
