Iranian Revolutionary Guard is testing missiles amid tension with the US.

Tehran – The paramilitary forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps carried out a military exercise on Saturday using ballistic missiles designed against a simulated target in the Indian Ocean, state television reported, at a time of great tension over Tehran’s nuclear program and campaign. US pressure against the Islamic Republic.

Television footage showed two missiles hitting a target Iranian state television described as “hypothetical hostile enemy ships “ at a distance of 1,120 miles. The report did not specify the type of missiles used.

In the first phase of the maneuvers, the Garde’s aerospace division launched several ground-to-surface ballistic missiles and drones on simulated enemy bases in the vast desert in the middle of the country on Friday, state television reported. The images also showed four triangular drones flying in a compact formation before crashing and exploding against their targets.

Tensions between Washington and Tehran have risen amid a series of incidents that resulted from President Donald Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear deal with several world powers. In Trump’s last days as president, Tehran recently intercepted a South Korean tanker and began to enrich uranium closer to ballistic levels, while the United States sent B-52 bombers, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and a nuclear submarine to the region.

In recent weeks, Iran has stepped up its military maneuvers as the country tries to put pressure on President-elect Joe Biden to reintegrate the United States into the nuclear deal. Biden has said the United States could rejoin.

On Thursday, Iran fired cruise missiles during naval exercises in the Gulf of Oman, state media reported, under surveillance by what appeared to be a US nuclear submarine sent to the region.

The Iranian Navy has not identified the submarine, but a news page affiliated with state television said on Saturday that it was a US ship. Footage of the exercise, captured from a helicopter and released by the Iranian Navy, showed what appeared to be the US submarine USS Georgia, which the US Navy said had been shipped to the Persian Gulf last month.

Recordings of the exercise, recorded from a helicopter and released by the Iranian Navy, showed what appeared to be the US submarine USS Georgia, which the US Navy said had been shipped to the Persian Gulf last month, a rare ad intended to underscore the power of the US military in the region.

Iran has missiles that can travel up to 1,250 miles, enough to hit nemesis Israel and US military bases in the region. Last January, after Washington killed a prominent general in Baghdad, Tehran responded by firing ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases with US soldiers, concussing dozens of them.