Iran tests Shabab-3 missile

Gregg Carlstrom | September 28, 2009 7:49 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

Iran went ahead as promised and tested its longest-range Shabab-3 missile today.

It's worth pointing out, as provocative as these missile tests might be, that they have absolutely nothing to do with the upcoming negotiations over Iran's nuclear program (or Friday's disclosure about the secret facility near Qom). Iran conducts these sorts of war games every year around the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war.

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Tags: Iranian nuclear program, Shabab-3, war games

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