TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has test-fired a new long-range missile, the country's state Press TV reported on Sunday.
Perhaps. You can never be too sure, it might be an old TV re-run.
Iran often stages war games or tests weapons to show its determination to counter any attack by foes including Israel and the United States, which accuse the Islamic Republic of seeking to develop nuclear bombs. Tehran denies the charge.
And if it can't it just makes something up out of thin air ...
"Iran test fires new long range missile," Press TV, Iran's English-language television station, said in a scrolling headline without giving details.
The Press TV report came less than a week after a top Iranian military commander said that Iranian missiles could now reach Israeli nuclear sites. Iran has often said it has missiles able to reach the Jewish state but had not previously mentioned such specific targets. Israel is believed to be the only nuclear-armed Middle East state.
I hear the old TV studios where the US faked the moon landings are available.
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reports elsewhere say that Iran has announce 'it will fire' the missile
most of these reports say it is a air to ground device fired from a fighter (which if true means the missile can travel at least as far as the fighter - and we know Iran has fighters with at least 1200 km range - assuming they don't have to return to base)
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STARS-N-STRIPES > seems US ELITE FORCES left behind to advise and train Iraqi Mil-Sec are worried the OBAMA ADMIN's PLANS TO DOWNSIZE THE US PRESENCE IN IRAQ will take away their WAR-INSURGENCY-WINING TECH(S) and LEAVE THEM EITHER MOSTLY FOOT-BOUND, OR ELSE RELIANT ON OLDER IRAQI MIL EQUIPMENT ON PAR [read, NOT COMBAT/FIELD-SUPERIOR OR DOMINANT] TO THAT OF THE MILITANTS???
IOW, HOW CAN ANY ISLAMIST HIDDEN-IMAM/MAHDI LOSE UNDER THESE KINDS OF SELF-IMPOSED [pro-Islamist]ENEMY LIMITATIONS, etc. OR STRATEGIC ENVIRON???
Iran said on Saturday the United States and world powers will be unable to restore stability in neighboring Afghanistan without the help of the Islamic Republic. "The U.S. and global powers have realized that the issues in Afghanistan cannot be solved without the presence of the Islamic Republic," Iranian government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters.
Elham added that Iran would consider a U.S. invitation to take part in a meeting on Afghanistan and it was ready to offer any help to its eastern neighbor.
"If America and European countries and others need to use Iran, they should give us (the invitation). We will review it with the approach that we are ready to offer any help to Afghanistan," Elham said.
"Stability in Afghanistan and issues there are priorities for Iran, and it is important for us to help them."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that President Barrack Obama's government intended to invite Iran to an international conference on Afghanistan planned for this month.
"There are a lot of reasons why Iran would be interested," Clinton said. "So they will be invited. Obviously it is up to them to decide whether to come."
Clinton's comments were seen as the latest overture by the U.S. administration of President Barack Obama towards Iran.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has test-fired a new long-range missile, the country's state Press TV reported on Sunday.
