Zolfaghar (missile)
The Zolfaghar missile is an Iranian road-mobile single-stage Solid-propelled SRBM named after the sword of Ali ibn abi talib Zolfaghar. It is believed to be derived from the Fateh-110 SRBM family possibly the Fateh-313 missile. It was first unveiled in about 2016 and entered service in 2017 as a longer range version of the Fateh-110 SRBM. It was first used in the 2017 Deir ez-Zor missile strike and was therefore one of the first used mid-range missiles since 30 years.History
It was first unveiled during a military parade aboard a vehicle decorated with an anti-Zionist banner on 25 September 2016 after which Defense minister hossein dehqan claimed that the missile had a range of 700 km. Whether it entered mass production or not is still unknown. The Iranian ministry of defense would later on release a video of its testing although the video has not been verified. On 17 June 2017 Iran launched six Zolfaghar missiles into Syria towards the Deir ez-Zor region on ISIS targest as a response to the attack in Tehran on 8 June 2017.
On February 2019 Iran unveiled a new longer range version of the Zolfaghar missile called the Dezful missile of range 1000km, it is a MRBM.
