Reuters - Iran plans to boost its ballistic and cruise missile capacity, as well as acquire a new generation fighter planes and submarines, the Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted a senior Defence Ministry official as saying on Saturday.

�Increasing ballistic and cruise missile capacity ... and the acquisition of new generation fighters and heavy and long-range vessels and submarines with various weapons capabilities are among the new plans of this ministry,� said Mohammad Ahadi, deputy defense minister for international affairs, IRNA said.

Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Toby Chopra