Why in news?

• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC) of Iran has reveled a long range ballistic Surface to surface missile.
• The missile, which uses solid fuel and has a range of 1,450 km is called the Kheiber Shekhan (Khaibar-buster), a reference to a Jewish castle overrun by Muslim warriors in the early days of Islam.
• The missile has high accuracy, is manufactured completely domestically, and can defeat missile shield systems.