Alarabiya – In the midst of the escalating crisis between the US and Iran and successive threats from Iranian civilian and military officials, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Deputy for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad Saleh Jokar announced last week that Iranian missiles are capable of hitting any point within a 2,000-km radius and that “even our short-range missiles can easily reach [US] warships in the Gulf.”

His comments, made in the Iranian city of Yazd, came shortly after US President Donald Trump said the US does not want to go to war with Iran.

Since the withdrawal of the US from the nuclear agreement on May 8, 2018, and the start of the process of imposing sanctions – which reached the stage of annulling oil revenues on May 2 this year – the US has said that Iranian missile activities pose a danger to not only the US and its regional allies, but the world. The most important of the 12 conditions set by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to negotiate with Iran, with the aim of reaching a new nuclear agreement in place of the previous “bad agreement” as Trump has described it, is that Iran must cease its production of missiles.

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