Iran’s Missile Cap Died With Khamenei, Putting Europe Within Reach – Analysis

By Kian Sharifi

Iran for years maintained that it had capped its ballistic missile range at 2,000 kilometers.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's then-supreme leader, said in 2021 that he had imposed the limit despite protests from military figures, framing it as a deliberate choice.

That choice, according to Iranian military officials, was a signal to Europe that it was not in Iran's crosshairs.

On March 21, within weeks of Khamenei's assassination in the US-Israeli war with Iran...