Iran on Tuesday unveiled what Tehran officials said was the first domestically produced hypersonic ballistic missile, the official IRNA news agency reported, citing Reuters and News.ro.

Hypersonic missiles can fly at least five times faster than the speed of sound and follow a complex trajectory, making them difficult to intercept.

Last November, the Islamic Republic announced it had built a hypersonic ballistic missile that can maneuver in and out of the atmosphere, but without unveiling any new weapons.

Iranian state media on Tuesday published images of the missile, called the Fattah, now on display at a ceremony attended by President Ibrahim Rahisi and the command of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s elite military.

What Iran says about the hypersonic missile it has developed

“The Fattah hypersonic missile with high-precision guidance has a range of 1,400 km and is capable of penetrating all defense shields,” Iranian state media quoted the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace forces, Amirali Hajizadeh, as saying.

State television said Iran’s Fattah missile could hit “the enemy’s modern anti-missile systems and is a major generational leap in the missile field.”

Fattah reached a maximum speed of Mach 14 (15,000 km/h), it added.

“It can bypass the most advanced anti-ballistic systems of the United States and the Zionist regime, including Israel’s Iron Dome,” Iranian state television said.

Iranian ballistic missiles are the cause of disputes with the West

Despite opposition from the United States and Europe, the Islamic Republic has said it will continue to develop what it calls a defensive missile program.

However, Western military analysts say Iran sometimes exaggerates its missile capabilities. Concerns about Iran’s ballistic missiles contributed to then-US President Donald Trump’s decision in 2018 to withdraw the US from the nuclear pact Tehran signed in 2015 with six major powers.

Trump reimposed US sanctions on Iran after pulling out of the nuclear deal, prompting Tehran to resume previously banned nuclear activities and reigniting fears in the US, Europe and Israel that Iran is trying to build an atomic bomb.

Indirect talks between Tehran and US President Joe Biden’s administration to save the nuclear deal stalled last year over Iran’s support for Russia in the war in Ukraine and a brutal crackdown on protests that erupted in the Islamic republic after the death of a young woman in Moravian police custody.

Israel opposes attempts by world powers to restore the nuclear deal with Tehran and has long threatened to launch precision strikes on its nuclear facilities if diplomacy fails.