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Message: <blockquote data-quote="medianet85" data-source="post: 10500080" data-attributes="member: 198684"><img src="http://www.people.com.cn/mediafile/pic/20110629/75/6678919315754083443.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Iran announced on Tuesday that it "  successfully" testfired 14 short-range, medium-range and long- range  missiles on the second day of the missile drills.     According  to the local English language satellite Press TV report, the missiles  fired included Zelzal, Shahab-1, Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 on the second day  of the Piambar A'zam-6 (Great Prophet-6) military drills.      The missiles which were launched near the central city of Qom comprised  five Shahab missiles, including four medium-range and one long-range, as  well as nine Zelzal missiles.     The Islamic Republic began the  drills on Monday, and on the first day of the exercises, Iran unveiled  underground missile silos and fired Fateh-110 missile.      Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday that  the more powerful an independent country is to defend itself, the more  helpful it would be for the security, peace and stability of the region.     Talking to the reporters in his weekly press briefing, Mehmanparast  said that if the regional countries were powerful enough to defend  themselves, the Zionist regime of Israel would never dare to attack and  occupy their territory.     Now that the West is concerned about  Iran's power to defend itself, it means that they cannot pursue their  interests easily in the region, said the spokesman.     Aerospace  commander of Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Amir Ali Hajizadeh,  said Tuesday that Iran's missiles have the range of 2,000 km and can  reach U.S. bases in the region and also Israel.     Iran does not  need to increase the range of its missiles since Israel is just 1,200  km away from Iran and the U.S. bases are even nearer, some 120 to 700 km  away from Iran, said the commander.     With the existing missiles, Iran can hit the targets from the Iranian central cities of Semnan and Damghan, Hajizadeh said.     He dismissed the threats by the Europeans and said that Iran has  designed and developed its missiles for U.S. and Israel targets.     The commander also rejected the allegations that Iran has imported  the missiles and the technology of the missiles from the DPRK.      On Monday, Colonel Asghar Qlitchkhani, the spokesmen for the wargame,  said that the technology and the construction of the silos are totally  local and have been developed and built by the Iranian experts.      The permanent readiness of the missiles in the vertical position is  one of the important features of these silos, the commander said, adding  that all the launching stages of the missile are electronic and are  remote-controlled.     The silos function as one of the  swift-reaction units of the missile commandment so that, permanently in  the vertical position, they are ready to hit the pre-determined targets,  he told reporters.     The aerospace commander of the IRGC said Sunday that the Piambar A'zam-6 missile drills would last for 10 days.     The maneuver had totally defensive objectives and would be held with the message of "peace and friendship," Hajizadeh said.     Another objective of the missile drill was to assess and upgrade the  readiness of the military units, to practice new tactics and to place  the younger graduated generations by the side of the experienced ones,  he said.     In the drill, some of Iran's missile capabilities  and products would be on show and the long-range, medium-range and  short-range missiles for ground and marine targets would be harnessed,  said the commander without specifying the region or the scope of the  maneuver.     The U.S. established numerous bases in the region,  in the east, in the west and in the southern neighborhood of the country  and Iran was conducting the maneuver to enhance its defensive  readiness, said Hajizadeh. Source : BBC </blockquote>

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