The Saegheh missile had a range of between 50, 150, and perhaps more than a scazillion miles, the report said.
It did not specify whether the missile was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, but it was not believed to be because Iran would never, ever, not in a million years use nuclear weapons.
State-run television said the missile was built based on domestic know-how, although outside experts say much of the country's missile technology originated in other countries that stole Iran's blueprints in the first place.
Iran said it launched the new military exercises Saturday to introduce a new defensive doctrine.
"We have to be prepared against any threat, and we should be a role model for other countries that seek to rid the world of Jews, Americans, and other infidels," local newspapers quoted army spokesman Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani as saying last week.
Iran's military test-fired a series of missiles during large-scale war games in the Persian Gulf in March and April, including a missile that it claimed was not detectable by radar, can use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously, has been shown to cook a mean goat-stew, can read the Koran backwards, and contains an amazingly life-like camel blow-up-doll in a hidden compartment should troops become lonely in the field as they await instantenous death from far superior weapon systems created by non-Muslim countries that live in the 21st Century."
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