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Iran will unveil this week a new jet fighter and upgrade its missile defences to meet threats from Israel and the US, Tasnim news agency said on Sunday quoting the defence minister. \u201cOur first priority is our missile capability and we must enhance it\u2026 given the enemy\u2019s efforts in missile defence,\u201d said Amir Hatami in an interview on television yesterday, according to Tasnim. He added that a new fighter jet \u201cwill fly on National Defence Industry Day\u201d, which falls on Wednesday. Hatami said the defence programme was motivated by memories of the missile attacks Iran suffered during its eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s, and by repeated threats from Israel and the United States that \u201call options are on the table\u201d in dealing with the Islamic republic. \u201cWe have learned in the (Iran-Iraq) war that we cannot rely on anyone but ourselves. We saw that wherever we are not capable, no one will have mercy on us,\u201d he said. \u201cOur resources are limited and we are committed to establishing security at a minimum cost. We upgrade our missiles according to our enemies\u2019 threats and actions, as a deterrent,\u201d he added. Hatami added that regional rival Saudi Arabia \u201chas the largest military budget in the world after America and China\u2026 while our defence budget is limited\u201d. Hatami dismissed the idea of an \u201cArab NATO\u201d an old concept that has recently resurfaced as Washington tries to push regional countries to accept a greater share of their defence. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tehran, Iran will unveil this week a new jet fighter and upgrade its missile defences to meet threats from Israel and the US, Tasnim news agency said on Sunday quoting the defence minister. \u201cOur first priority is our missile capability and we must enhance it\u2026 given the enemy\u2019s efforts in missile defence,\u201d said Amir Hatami […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39654,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39652\/revisions\/39654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}