According to the DefenseSecurityAsia military portal, the missile was launched from the spaceport located east of Tehran. Imam Khomeini's plane was to fly towards the East Siberian Sea after obtaining the Kremlin's consent to enter Russian airspace.
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Information about the successful test has also been disseminated by Iranian parliamentarians and high-ranking regime representatives, including Mohsen Zanganeh, a member of the Iranian Majlis (parliament), who publicly stated: “We tested one of the most modern missiles in the country and this test was successful.”
Already in September last year, Iranian officials warned in propaganda terms that “America is about 10,000 km away from us, and we can bring our ships to a distance of about 2,000 km from it and from there launch missiles that will hit Washington, New York and other American cities.”
So far, the only evidence of a successful mission, apart from the declaration, is a short video recording the launch and initial flight of the rocket posted on Facebook, but it does not specify when the test was carried out.
There is no independent verification or satellite imagery to confirm the rocket's successful flight. According to DefenseSecurityAsia, Western intelligence and independent analysts are currently assessing the credibility of these scraps of information shared by Tehran.
If confirmed, they would represent a historic escalation of Iran's strategic weapons program, which is vital to the defense of the United States. And according to geopolitics analysts, Iran may transform from a regional power into a serious player threatening not only its closest neighbors, but all real and imaginary enemies.
Iran certainly currently has systems like Khorramshahr-4 that reach no more than 3,000. km and may cover the Persian Gulf countries, Israel and part of Eastern Europe.
Iran is certainly also working on missiles intended for space missions. The U.S. War Department reaffirmed this last year, warning that such programs in Iran are “dual-use in nature and indistinguishable in their early stages” and that Tehran's dissemination of information about ICBM tests should be read as a warning — not just of capability, but of intent.
