Iran's new missile tests, able to hit Israel

Iran on Tuesday test-fired in its central desert a ballistic missile capable of striking Israel as part of war games designed to show its ability to retaliate if attacked, media reported.

The official IRNA news agency said the surface-to-surface missiles successfully hit their targets, while semi-official Fars said the weapons included the so-called Shahab-3 missile. It quoted a leading officer as saying the missiles travelled distances of up to 800 miles (1,300km).

"So far, we have launched missiles from 300 to 1,300 kilometres in the manoeuvre," said General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the Guards' aerospace division. He hinted that some missiles had an even longer range.

Iran has tested a variety of missiles in previous war games, including a Shahab-3 variant with a range of 1,200 miles.

Israel is about 600 miles away from Iran's western borders, while the US Navy's Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain, 120 miles from Iranian shores in the Persian Gulf.
US and Europe Union wants to stop Iran from day to day missile testing and threatening Israel. But Iran always says that its atomic program is peaceful and testing missiles is a part of their defense. US EU always warns Iran but Iran deals all the matters so wisely and bravely. Iran is never afraid by US, EU or Israel because they know all the realities and truths about Us, EU and Israel.
“In these exercises, we used missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometres, but the plan called for them to be fired only 1,300 kilometres,” Fars quoted the head of the Guards aerospace division in charge of missile systems, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, as saying.

Iran’s test-firing of its missiles also occurred on the anniversary of the July 3, 1988 shooting down of an Iranian commercial airliner by a US warship towards the end of the Iran-Iraq war.

All 290 passengers and crew on the plane died in the attack, which Washington said was the result of erroneously identifying the civilian aircraft as an Iranian fighter jet.

Iran responds to EU sanctions:
Iran's Revolutionary Guards tested, one day after the European Union put into effect its embargo of Iranian oil. The EU and the United States began imposing tough new sanctions on Iran’s oil industry this month, with the aim to inflict such economic pain that Iran’s leaders get serious about an international deal to curtail the country’s advancing nuclear programme.

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