Iran planning missile tests
Iran is planning three days of military manoeuvres, including short-range missile tests, beginning today.
The tests first since the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against it in late December, state-run television said.
"The elite Revolutionary Guards plans to begin a three-day missile manoeuvre on Sunday near Garmsar city," said the broadcast.
The city is located in northern Iran on the edge of Kavir desert, about 100 kilometres southeast of Tehran.
"Zalzal and Fajr-5 missiles will be test-fired in the war game," the television quoted an unnamed commander of the guards as saying.
Both are considered short-range missiles.
"The manoeuvre is aimed at evaluating defensive and fighting capabilities of the missiles," the commander said.
Iran conducted a total of three large-scale military exercises last year as tensions with the West and the United States have risen.
In November, it test-fired dozens of missiles, including the Shahab-3, which can reach Israel, in military manoeuvres that it said were aimed at putting a stop to the role of world powers in the Persian Gulf region.
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