Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the country’s armed forces on Sunday to increase their power to “scare off” the enemy. His statement came just before the Revolutionary Guards said it fired seven missiles in an attack on Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish dissidents that killed at least 11 people on Saturday.
“Increase your power as much as you can, because your power scares off the enemy and forces it to retreat,” Ayatollah Khamenei’s official website quoted him as saying at a graduation ceremony for cadets of Iran’s regular armed forces.
State television also showed Ayatollah Khamenei praising Iranian naval forces in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen, while speaking to their commander via video-link.
Meanwhile, a senior military official said Iran had capability to export the know-how to produce solid rocket fuel, the state news agency IRNA reported. Solid fuel rockets can be fired on short notice.
