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20 August 2025 - Iran Special Weapons News
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- Defense minister: Newer, more advanced missiles will be used if Israel attacks again IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh says Iran has developed new missiles with much greater capabilities than before, which will be used in response to any possible Israeli adventurism.
- Iran Navy to launch Eqtedar 1404 missile exercise IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- Rear Admiral Abbas Hassani has said that the two-day Eqtedar 1404 missile exercise will take place in the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, involving surface and subsurface vessels, aerial units, coastal-to-sea missile sites, sea-based missile platforms, and electronic warfare units.
- Iran's top military command says Armed Forces fully ready to repel threats Press TV 20 Aug 2025 -- Iran's top military command has underlined the total combat readiness of the country's Armed Forces in fighting off any potential acts of aggression by enemies against Iranian soil.
- Pezeshkian: Iran wants peaceful coexistence with all nations IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- President Masoud Pezeshkian has stressed mutual respect and acceptance of the territorial integrity of countries, and considered adherence to these principles to be the main condition for stability.
- Roadmap for ties with Belarus to be upgraded to strategic partnership: Iran FM IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran plans to revise its relations with Belarus to a strategic partnership.
- Iran sees no limits to expanding ties with Belarus: Pezeshkian IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran sees no limits to expanding relations with Belarus, stressing the need for greater cooperation to counter unilateralism and its "destructive consequences."
- Iran, Belarus ink 12 agreements during Pezeshkian's Minsk visit IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- The Islamic Republic of Iran and Belarus have signed 12 cooperation agreements and a joint statement as President Masoud Pezeshkian is on an official visit to Minsk.
- President Pezeshkian: US unilateralism intolerable for Iran and Belarus IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that the United States and some European countries are seeking to expand unilateralism and impose their views on other nations, an approach that is unacceptable for both Tehran and Minsk.
- Pezeshkian in Minsk: Iran, Belarus close ranks against US-led unilateralism Press TV 20 Aug 2025 -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says the United States and some of its Western allies are seeking to expand unilateralism across the globe and impose their dictates upon other nations, emphasizing that neither Iran nor Belarus will tolerate such an approach.
- Lukashenko slams Western sanctions on Belarus, Iran as 'economic terrorism' IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has denounced Western sanctions imposed on his country and Iran as "economic terrorism", Russian news agency TASS reported.
- Exclusive | US resorted to military aggression after failing to impose 'zero enrichment' on Iran: Araghchi IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says recent military aggression by the United States, carried out in coordination with Israel, was driven by Washington's frustration over its failure to compel Iran to abandon uranium enrichment entirely.
- China says there's no justification for JCPOA snapback activation Press TV 20 Aug 2025 -- China's mission to the United Nations has declared the country's firm opposition to threats by European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal to activate the "snapback" mechanism within the framework of UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
- Oil minister says Iran has no unsold oil at sea IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- Petroleum Minister Mohsen Paknejad says that not a single barrel of unsold Iranian oil is left at sea, stressing that all shipments currently at sea are managed according to market conditions and precise planning.
- Cumulative gas production at South Pars Phase 11 triples in one year IRNA 20 Aug 2025 -- The cumulative gas production from the South Pars Phase 11 development project has tripled under the administration of President Masoud Pezeshkian, Pars Oil and Gas Company announced on Wednesday.
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