Iran held a military parade on Thursday and unveiled what it claimed to be a new ballistic missile. The missile is a medium-range ballistic rocket capable of traveling around 1,400km, according to Iranian media. Images of the missile were also shown in
The protests broke out a week ago at the funeral of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died following her detention by morality police enforcing women to wear the hijab.
Iran reportedly has around 20 types of ballistic missiles, some of which are copies of missiles developed in North Korea, or have origins in Russian and Chinese missiles.