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Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel
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Iran has asserted that it possesses and has begun deploying advanced hypersonic missiles against Israel. However, these claims currently lack any verifiable evidence, and military experts have expressed scepticism.
Should these high-speed projectiles indeed be in Iran's arsenal and deployed, they could present an unprecedented challenge to Israel’s sophisticated missile-defence system, the iron dome.
