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IRAN tests fires missile.
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State-run Tehran television reported on Friday that the Fateh 110 A missile had been successfully test fired.
It did not say where or when the test happened, nor the missile's range.
The test firing also comes as Mideast tensions soar amid threats of a U.S. attack against Iraq on grounds it is producing weapons of mass destruction.
U.S. President George W. Bush has also accused Iran of sponsoring terrorism and labeled Iran, Iraq and North Korea as forming an "axis of evil."
Tehran TV described the missile as "one the most accurate surface-to-surface missiles manufactured in the world."
The Aerospace Industries Organisation, which is affiliated with Iran's Defence Ministry, developed the missile as "an effective initiative to prevent threats by destabilising units," Tehran TV reported.
Considerable enmity, however, lingers between Iran and neighboring Iraq from their 1980-88 war, which left about a million people dead and wounded.
Iraq accuses Iran of harboring Iraqi rebels and Iran accuses Iraq of doing the same for Iranian rebels.
Tehran-Baghdad relations soured further recently after each side accused the other of serving Israeli interests in past regional conflicts.
Doug Richardson, editor of the authoritative Jane's Missiles and Rockets, told The Associated Press the Fateh 110 A missile may be based on the Chinese DF-11 A missile, "which has a range of 300 kilometers (186 miles) to 400 kilometers (248 miles) and which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads."
The Chinese missile possesses Global Positioning System technology, making it very accurate, said Duncan Lennox, editor of Janes Strategic Weapon Systems.
An unidentified Aerospace Industries Organisation official was quoted as saying the use of "local technology in the design and manufacturing sector of combined solid-fuelled missile" was the most significant achievement of the test fire.
Iran has built a number of missiles, including the Shahab-3 which was first tested in 1998, has a range of 1,300 kilometers (810 miles) and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Iran is believed to have received missile technology from Russia, China and North Korea, but Tehran has denied this.
The Shahab-3 is believed to be based on North Korea's No Dong ballistic missile.
Washington has also expressed concern that a planned 1,000 megawatt reactor in the Iranian city of Bushehr -- being built with Russian assistance -- will help advance Iran's weapons program. Moscow insists the plant would serve only civilian purposes.
It did not say where or when the test happened, nor the missile's range.
The test firing also comes as Mideast tensions soar amid threats of a U.S. attack against Iraq on grounds it is producing weapons of mass destruction.
U.S. President George W. Bush has also accused Iran of sponsoring terrorism and labeled Iran, Iraq and North Korea as forming an "axis of evil."
Tehran TV described the missile as "one the most accurate surface-to-surface missiles manufactured in the world."
The Aerospace Industries Organisation, which is affiliated with Iran's Defence Ministry, developed the missile as "an effective initiative to prevent threats by destabilising units," Tehran TV reported.
Considerable enmity, however, lingers between Iran and neighboring Iraq from their 1980-88 war, which left about a million people dead and wounded.
Iraq accuses Iran of harboring Iraqi rebels and Iran accuses Iraq of doing the same for Iranian rebels.
Tehran-Baghdad relations soured further recently after each side accused the other of serving Israeli interests in past regional conflicts.
Doug Richardson, editor of the authoritative Jane's Missiles and Rockets, told The Associated Press the Fateh 110 A missile may be based on the Chinese DF-11 A missile, "which has a range of 300 kilometers (186 miles) to 400 kilometers (248 miles) and which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads."
The Chinese missile possesses Global Positioning System technology, making it very accurate, said Duncan Lennox, editor of Janes Strategic Weapon Systems.
An unidentified Aerospace Industries Organisation official was quoted as saying the use of "local technology in the design and manufacturing sector of combined solid-fuelled missile" was the most significant achievement of the test fire.
Iran has built a number of missiles, including the Shahab-3 which was first tested in 1998, has a range of 1,300 kilometers (810 miles) and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Iran is believed to have received missile technology from Russia, China and North Korea, but Tehran has denied this.
The Shahab-3 is believed to be based on North Korea's No Dong ballistic missile.
Washington has also expressed concern that a planned 1,000 megawatt reactor in the Iranian city of Bushehr -- being built with Russian assistance -- will help advance Iran's weapons program. Moscow insists the plant would serve only civilian purposes.