Posted on 05/20/2009 5:53:45 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Iran says launches missile with 2,000 km range
2 hrs 31 mins ago
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran launched a missile with a range of around 2,000 km (1,200 miles) on Wednesday and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Islamic state could send any attacker "to hell," official media reported.
The stated range of the surface-to-surface Sejil 2 missile would be almost as far as another Iranian missile, Shahab 3, and military analysts say it could enable Iran to reach Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf.
The announcement is likely to arouse further concern in the West and Israel about Iran's military ambitions. The United States and its allies suspect the Islamic Republic is seeking to build nuclear bombs. Tehran denies the charge.
"The Sejil 2 missile, which has an advanced technology, was launched today ... and it landed exactly on the target," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
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More end times news. This is a great era of hope and change isn’t it?
Where was the media buildup of this imminent launch like N Korea?
Such nice people, those Iranians!
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