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Titolo: Iran fires missiles in war games (Reuters)

Sembra che le testate provate siano proprio cluster bombs. Altri 
dettagli interessanti su uso e portata dei missili iraniani.
Am.
 Iran fires missiles in war games: TV
By Parisa Hafezi  Thu Nov 2, 5:55 PM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired missiles carrying 
cluster warheads to shouts of "God is greatest" at the start of 10 days 
of military maneuvers on Thursday, state television reported.
Tehran said the maneuvers, dubbed "The Greatest Prophet" and which will 
include drills in the Gulf and Sea of Oman, were to demonstrate 
"defensive strength."
Days before, the United States led naval exercises in the Gulf to 
practise blocking the transport of weapons of mass destruction.
A military expert said Iran probably wanted to show off home-grown 
technology and said the missile did not seem to represent a new 
strategic threat.
Washington dismissed the exercises as sabre-rattling.
"I think they're trying to demonstrate that they're tough. But the 
Iranians also, I think, are not unaware that the security environment is 
one in which if they actually were to do something Iran would suffer 
greatly," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a radio 
interview.
"The Iranians are a threat and that's why the international community's 
got to be strong in resisting their ambitions.
"They're trying to say to the world you're not going to keep us from 
getting a nuclear weapon. The world has to say to them, yes, we will."
Tensions between Iran and Western powers are high as the latter try to 
agree a draft U.N. sanctions resolution aimed at forcing Tehran to scale 
back atomic work they fear may be used to make bombs. Iran says its aims 
are purely peaceful.
"Dozens of missiles were fired, including Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 
missiles. The missiles had ranges from 300 km (190 miles) up to 2,000 km 
(1,200 miles)," Iran's main state television channel reported.
Footage showed six missiles, which television said included Shahabs, 
being fired from mobile launchers and leaving long vapour trails as they 
soared into the air above the desert near the holy city of Qom in 
central Iran.
As they rose, Yahya Rahim Safavi, commander-in-chief of the 
Revolutionary Guards who gave the firing order, and other Guards were 
heard shouting: "God is Greatest."
A reporter for the Arabic-language Al-Alam television, also state-owned, 
told Reuters by telephone from the launch site that the Shahab-2 and 
Shahab-3 missiles launched on Thursday had been installed with cluster 
warheads.
State TV said the cluster warheads could carry 1,400 bombs.
LAND, SEA AND AIR
"What they mean are sub-munitions which are very small. And if they've 
got 1,400 in the warhead that means they are very small," Duncan Lennox, 
editor of Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems, told Reuters.
Iran had announced months ago they were working on a warhead that would 
deliver such bomblets, he said, adding that such technology was mainly 
useful against personnel but did not amount to a new strategic threat.
"I guess they see it as a new type of warhead that gives them another 
option," he said. "The message is: look we can do most things and our 
technology is constantly improving."
Experts say Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a maximum range of some 2,000 
km, making them capable of hitting Israel as well as U.S. military bases 
in the Gulf. They say the Shahab-2 missile has a range of up to 700 km.
Iran's maneuvers follow U.S.-led naval exercises involving 25 nations in 
the Gulf on Monday to train forces to block the transport of weapons of 
mass destruction and related equipment.
Safavi had said the latest war games would comprise drills by ground, 
air and naval forces, including submarines, mainly in the Gulf and Sea 
of Oman.
The Revolutionary Guards, the ideologically driven wing of the armed 
forces which has a separate command structure from the regular military, 
held war games in the Gulf in April in which they tested new missiles, 
torpedoes and other equipment.
Analysts interpreted those exercises as a statement that Iran could 
disrupt vital oil shipping lanes if pushed by an escalation in the 
dispute over the country's nuclear program.

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natiche bene in alto <g>
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 analric
Non mi avrai Sergei, te l'ho gia' spiegato. 
Consolati come i rednecks americani: con il c**o di un tacchino 
(scongelato).
Soprattutto non prendere esempio dal tuo boss russo, riguardo a pancini.
Per ingannare l'attesa fatti un bel lollipop. E se proprio non resisti 
prendi un'appuntamento con Massimo1 a Monte Caprino.
Quello non te corca, e magari porge.
lol
Am.

 Non mi avrai Sergei,
meno male : con il culo sporgente che hai e trafficato da tutti quei
nazisti chi te vole? bleah.
bwhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahha
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Teheran dice che hanno sviluppato missili con testate che portano cluster 
bomb.
Bene.
Ammettiamo che sia vero e non sia una sparata propagandistica.
Quando -e se- ne tireranno abbastanza da lasciare, in aree densamente 
popolate da civili e senza obiettivi militari, un paio di milioni di 
bombette inesplose, allora, e solo allora, meriteranno la stessa ferma 
condanna che merita chi finora ha fatto cio', vale a dire IL.