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Iran says it has missile with 2,000km range
By Gareth Smyth in Tehran
Published: October 5 2004 12:39 | Last updated: October 5 2004 12:39

Iran flagAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran's influential former president, on Tuesday added to the war of words with Israel and the United States by claiming Iran had developed a satellite-launching rocket with a range of 2,000km.

Mr Rafsanjani used a speech on 'space and national security' to warn that Iran was determined to improve its military capabilities. Tehran used recent military manoeuvres to test a new version of the Shahab-3 missile, which has a range of 1,300-km that could already reach Israel and US bases in the Gulf.

Iran's past statements about the longer-range rocket, known as the Shahab 4, have been contradictory. It has previously only said that the missile was in development and the defence ministry said last November that it did not intend to manufacture it.

Tension between Tehran and US and Israel has been increasing over Iran's nuclear programme, which Washington and Tel Aviv allege is to develop nuclear weapons.

The US is pressing the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN watchdog, to use its meeting next month to refer Iran to the UN security council for punitive action.

But there has also been widespread speculation that Israel or the US might attack Iranian nuclear facilities.

Israel, which analysts estimate has between 100 and 200 weapons as part of its undeclared nuclear weapons programme, announced last month the purchase from the US of 500 “bunker buster” bombs with the capacity to penetrate Iran's underground facilities.

Israel has also developed with Boeing, the US firm, the $1bn Arrow II anti-missile system to bring down missiles like the Shahab. Posted by Hello
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