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Iran claims new missiles forced Israel to halt threats

The spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said newly unveiled Iranian ballistic missiles pushed Israel back from threatening the Islamic Republic with a military strike.
Picture obtained from the Iranian ISNA news agency on December 16, 2009 shows the test-firing at an undisclosed location in Iran of an improved version of the Sejil 2 medium-range missile which the Islamic republic says can reach targets inside Israel. State television said Iran successfully test-fired the two-stage Sejil, powered by solid fuel, which is capable according to Iran of travelling 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles), which would put arch-foe Israel, most Arab states and parts of Europe, including mu

The spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said last week's military drills in his country sent a message to Israel and made it end its war threats against the Islamic Republic.

"The Zionists [Israeli government] were under the impression that they were capable of neutralizing some of our ballistic missiles," Ramezan Sharif told the state-run Arabic language Al-Alam TV. "But thanks to our spectacular advances … [Israel's anti-missile] Iron Dome system fails to detect our projectiles." 

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