Iran held a military exercise on Saturday to test its missile and radar systems and vowed to use its missiles if its security is under threat.
The exercise took place a day after US President Donald Trump's administration imposed sanctions on Tehran for a recent ballistic missile test.
The United States sanctioned 13 individuals and 12 entities related to Iran's missile program and Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn said the United States was putting Iran on notice over its "destabilizing activity."
Behnam Partopour, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute student from Iran, is greeted by friends at Logan Airport after he cleared US customs and immigration on an F1 student visa in Boston, Massachusetts, US on February 3, 2017. Partopour was originally turned away from a flight to the US following US President Donald Trump's executive order travel ban
Iran's Revolutionary Guards website said that the aim of the military exercise in Semnan province was to "showcase the power of Iran's revolution and to dismiss the sanctions."
Iranian state news agencies reported that home-made missile systems, radars, command and control centers, and cyber warfare systems were tested in the drill.
Meanwhile, a Revolutionary Guards commander said Iran would use its missiles if its security is under threat.
"We are working day and night to protect Iran's security," head of Revolutionary Guards' aerospace unit, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency. "If we see smallest misstep from the enemies, our roaring missiles will fall on their heads," he added.
Although tensions between Washington and Iran have risen, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday he was not considering raising the number of US forces in the Middle East to address Iran's "misbehavior" at this time, but warned that the world would not ignore Iranian activities.
Iranian citizen Ali Vayeghan arrives at Los Angeles International Airport on February 2, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, US. Vayeghan was detained and sent back to Iran after arriving in the United States on the day that US President Donald Trump's travel ban was implemented.
Dismissing Trump's comments that "nothing is off the table" in dealing with Tehran, the commander of Iran's ground forces said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic has been hearing such threats since its 1979 revolution.
"The defense capability and the offensive prowess of Iran's armed forces would make America or any other enemy regretful of any incursion," Ahmad Reza Pourdastan was quoted as saying by ISNA.
Iran has one of the Middle East's largest missile programs and held a similar exercise in December to showcase its defense systems, including radars, anti-missile defense units, and short and medium-range missiles.
Tehran confirmed on Wednesday that it had test-fired a new ballistic missile, but said the test did not breach the Islamic Republic's nuclear agreement with world powers or a UN Security Council resolution endorsing the pact.
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