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Mar. 31, 2006 17:54 | Updated Apr. 1, 2006 2:00
"Iran test-fires radar-avoiding, multiple-warhead missile"
By JPOST STAFF AND AP
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Iran successfully test-fired a missile that can avoid radar and hit several targets simultaneously using multiple warheads, the military said Friday.
The Fajr-3, which means "Victory" in Farsi, can reach Israel and US bases in the Middle East, state Iranian media indicated - causing alarm in the United States and Israel. The announcement also is likely to stoke regional tensions and feed suspicion about Tehran's military intentions and nuclear ambitions.
"I think it demonstrates that Iran has a very active and aggressive military program under way," State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said in Washington. "I think Iran's military posture, military development effort, is of concern to the international community."
Israel said it too was alarmed by the missile report.
"This news causes much concern," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
Gen. Hossein Salami, the air force chief of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, did not specify the missile's range, saying it depends on the weight of its warheads."
As I noted in my summary, this would be an incredable leap in Iranian missile technology, one that the US has only recently attained. I think that this is mostly bluster and big talk to scare the arabs across the gulf into thinking that the Patriot missile systems are no longer effective and they are defenseless. Thus increasing leverage to have them pressure us into not striking their nuclear development facilities.
http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2370940
"RUSSIA'S NEW CHINA-BOUND GAS PIPELINE PLAN SPARKS CONTROVERSY"
By Sergei Blagov
Friday, March 31, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "As the Kremlin pledged to build two huge natural gas pipelines to China by 2011, one of these routes has already triggered an environmental controversy."