Iran: West's missile demands "idiotic" and "insane"

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has criticized the West for demanding that Tehran's missile powers be restricted.

Khamenei said on Sunday that the West expected to restrict Iran's missile capability while at the same time continuously raising military threats.

He called such an expectation "idiotic" and "insane".

According to Iran's official IRNA news agency, Khamenei's remarks came during a visit to an aerospace exhibition at the air defense headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards.

The exhibition reportedly featured an advanced US-CIA spy drone, allegedly captured by Iran in 2011, and its Iranian-made copy.

IRNA said aerospace experts also briefed Khamenei on the latest details of a project to reverse-engineer the drone.