Iran playing with fire with missile launch

Independent:

Iran announced the successful test-launch yesterday of an "advanced technology" missile capable of hitting Israel and US bases in the Gulf.

In a move that some analysts saw as a response to the meeting on Monday between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Sejil 2 missile had "landed exactly on the target".

The launch, which Mr Ahmadinejad said had taken place earlier in the day, may also have been timed to coincide with the official start of campaigning for the 12 June election.

The President faces challenges by critics of his stridently anti-Israel and anti-Western rhetoric. At a rally in the northern Selman province, where the official Iranian news agency IRNA said the launch had taken place, Mr Ahmadinejad said Iran had the power to "send to hell" any military base from which "a bullet" was fired against the country. State television showed footage of a missile soaring into the sky, followed by a vapour trail.

Reuters quoted an anonymous US defence official confirming the launch of the missile, which has a range close to 1,200 miles, but he said the Pentagon had yet not been able to analyse the data needed to establish the missile's trajectory and target. A Sejil 2 was tested last November. Iran said at the time it was part of a new generation of surface-to-surface missiles.

In a bellicose reference to Israel, Mr Ahmadinejad said: "The Zionist regime ... threatens Iran militarily with its false threats and the Iranian nation should know that it is just theatre."

Danny Ayalon, Israel's deputy Foreign Minister, said Iranian missiles could reach Europe as well as Israel: "If anyone had any doubt, now it's clear to all that Iran is playing with fire."

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It is hard to see how Obama can continue to ignore Iran's belligerence. Ahmadinejad is certainly not acting like someone who is looking for an agreement with anyone. All Obama is proving at this point is that Bush was right in his approach to Iran.

Ahmadinejad is proving that Israel's concerns are justified.

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