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Iran's Revolutionary Guards fire a Shahab 3 missile
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TEHRAN, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian deputy navy
chief said on Friday that the Iranian army launched three new missiles earlier
during their ongoing military maneuver was a strong message for the United
States to cease its military drills in the Gulf region, the state radio
reported.
"I think the enemies of the Islamic Republic should
stop their hostility in the Persian Gulf, and they should not make any move that
could intensify the tensions in the region," Admiral. Sardar Fadavi, the deputy
navy chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, told the radio.
The chief made the remarks when he was answering a
question from the radio on whether Iran's new drill was a strong response to the
previous U.S.-led military maneuvers in the same regional, therefore he referred
to the United States clearly.
On Oct. 29, the U.S.-led naval forces staged a
two-day maneuver in the Gulf waters, claiming that it aimed at blocking
smuggling of nuclear weaponry material and arms proliferation.
Some hours earlier before Fadavi's comments, Iran's
Revolutionary Guards successfully fired three new models of missiles in the
ongoing military exercises in the Gulf region.
The local television footage showed the missiles were
fired from mobile launching carriers on the shore and from warships, and hit the
targets successfully.
On Thursday, Iran also tested its ballistic Shahab-3
missiles for the first time in the military maneuvers. The medium-range missiles
could reach a range of more than 2,000 km, and can cover Israel and the U.S.
military bases in the Mideast.
Iran fires ballistic missiles in
drill
TEHRAN, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Thursday launched
several types of missiles at the start of a large-scale military maneuvers,
including the Shahab-3 ballistic missiles with a range of more than 2,000 km,
the state television reported.
"The Shahab missiles carrying cluster warheads have a
range of 2,000 km, they were fired from the desert of Qom," a city 120 km south
of Tehran, the television reported. Full Story
