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Iran Test-Fires Long-Range Missile

Jon Wolfsthal
Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS
Wednesday, July 9, 2008; 1:00 PM

Iran said today it had test-fired a long-range missile capable of reaching Israel and U.S. troops in the region, a step promptly condemned by the Bush administration as heightening tensions over the country's suspected nuclear weapons program.

The roughly 1,200 mile range of Iran's Shahab-3 rocket has been known for several years, but the test firing -- and pointed statements from Tehran about the country's "capability in hitting its enemies" -- added to a tense climate