Iran parades long-range missiles - Middle East - Al Jazeera English - 0 views
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Iran has paraded 30 missiles with a nominal range of 2,000km, this is the first time it displayed so many with the theoretical capacity to hit Israeli targets.
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Iran revealed 12 Sejil and 18 Ghadr missiles at the annual parade on Sunday marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
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In a speech at the state event, President Hassan Rouhani insisted the weaponry on show was purely for defensive purposes."In the past 200 years, Iran has never attacked another country," he said."Today too, the armed forces of the Islamic Republic and its leadership will never launch any aggressive action in the region."But they will always resist aggressors determinedly until victory."