Iran Fire Short Range Missiles In War Games

TEHRAN Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles Sunday in drills meant to show Tehran is prepared to crush any military threat from another country Show of strength after uranium plant uncovered

Iran stokes nuclear tension by test-firing missiles

The test of the Shahab-3, following trials of short-range missiles today, is likely to raise tensions across the region. Iran claims the missile, based on a North Korean design, has a range of 1,500 miles far enough to reach Israel and Iran's other Middle East rivals Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

The missile tests, carried out by Iran's revolutionary guard, come days before a critical encounter in Geneva between Iranian officials and senior diplomats from the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.

The meeting was to have been a final attempt to find a compromise on Iran's uranium enrichment programme, which Tehran is expanding despite a string of UN security council resolutions calling for it to be halted. The stakes at the meeting have been raised further by the revelation last week that Iran was secretly building an enrichment plant under a mountain near the holy city of Qom.

Western officials said at the weekend that Iran would now have to do far more than suspend enrichment to avoid potentially devastating economic sanctions.

"The bar is now higher," said a British official. "If you think of it in terms of a deficit of trust, Iran's deficit has just got much bigger, and they will have to do much more now to convince the world they do not have a weapons programme."

The hunt is already under way for other sites in what western officials suspect may be a complete shadow nuclear programme. Nuclear analysts say it would have been almost impossible for the Iranians to divert uranium fuel to the Qom enrichment facility from its conversion plant in Isfahan without being spotted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which constantly monitors Isfahan.

It is therefore believed Iran could be hiding a second, covert conversion plant, capable of turning milled uranium ore, known as yellowcake, into uranium hexafluoride gas. That is the form which allows the most fissile isotope uranium-235, used for power generation and weapons to be purified in the massed centrifuges of an enrichment plant.

Western officials say there are other suspect sites around Iran, and the Iranian government will be told in Geneva that it must give IAEA inspectors access to those sites to escape punitive measures.

"My offer of a serious, meaningful dialogue to resolve this issue remains open," US president Barack Obama said in his weekly radio address. "But Iran must now co-operate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and take action to demonstrate its peaceful intentions."

The New York Times reported that the US wanted IAEA access to the Qom plant "within weeks". Tehran had said it would allow inspectors to see the plant but did not say when.

The long list of demands to be presented to Iran on Thursday will also include a longstanding IAEA request to see the Kalaye Electric Company factory near Tehran, where centrifuge components are made. Iran will also be required to make key scientists available for interview, particularly Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who western officials believe ran, or still runs, secret efforts aimed at building a nuclear warhead known as project 110 and project 111.

Few expect Iran to comply with the demands. Tehran insists its programme is for entirely civilian purposes, and that the demands are an infringement of its sovereign rights. It admitted to the existence of the Qom plant in a letter to the IAEA, and denies that it was forced into disclosure by the discovery of the secret enrichment facility by western intelligence agencies.

In the absence of Iranian concessions on Thursday, a debate will begin among the six nations in the negotiating group over what kind of sanctions to impose. The US, Britain and France are seeking to win a consensus on "biting" sanctions, particularly on Iran's oil and gas sector, by the end of the year

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[SiNaoia]

I believe you are wrong... Iran is just as much a part of the World community as any other country. Iran is not a bad country. and the people are good.

Zionist Israel has good people as well but the Government is bad. Zionist wanted the land of Palestine before the 19th they infiltrated the land and stirred trouble between Palestine Arabs and Jews. Zionist agitated & antagonized the1929 Hebron Massacre. Zionist tried to push Pale ppl out & willing to murder & kill anyone that didn't leave.

[SiNaoia]

Kissmy

Quote:

The Leaders of Zionist movement Ben-Gurion, Shared, Weizmann, etc. Had deliberately squelched news of the mass murder of Jews during the holocaust, and had deliberately foiled efforts to save them. Unquote:

Historical research unfolds & shows Zionist, Rothschild & International Bankers were in cohutz with HITLER WHO WANTED JEWS OUT OF GERMANY but was prevented by Zionist Leaders.

Zion was looking for a HOLOHOAX to gain Palestine, Jordan, S. Lebanon, and Damascus?

[bestamerica]

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this missile fly to where going

[hezbollah9320]

@radar200 and why does america interfere in the midlle east and israel ???

[alderaforall]

I bet these were long range missiles that didn't go too far so they renamed them short range to save face.

[zweg2]

Blacks are dying in Iraq too, hoe.

Your a racist, moronic bigot. There are gay blacks and blacks that have been convicted of child pornography, you ignorant, stupid son of a bitch.

Kill yourself asshole. It's the year 2010. Racists like you will die soon...

[pasargad22]

the trajectory is like an ground to air intercept

[kearkarn]

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[SiNaoia]

radar200

You are wrong about Iran they have every business be concerned about the Palestinian People their land and the Vicious cruelty inflicted upon them by the Zionist.. Zionist Israel is STEALING AND MURDERING PALESTINIAN FOR THEIR LAND OF 2000 YEARS.

Ahmadinejad doesn't want to hurt Israel but at the same time IS NOT GOING TOO TOLERATE THE ABUSE AND EVIL INFLICTED BY ZIONIST ISRAEL

You sound like the Zionist Hypocrites who purposely didn't help the Holocaust Jews of Poland & Germany!!!