Tuesday, May 11, 2010

UK Could Be Target For Tehran Missiles ‘In Four Years’

TIMES ONLINE: Iran is focused on improving a growing arsenal of ballistic missiles but needs at least four more years to be able to target London and more than a decade to threaten the East Coast of the United States, a leading think-tank said yesterday.

The analysis by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) came after Tehran said that it had test-fired for the first time a series of short-range Fajr (Dawn) missiles in the Gulf.

“The missiles were fired from surface to sea and hit the target with great precision,” Kiomars Haydari, deputy chief of the army ground forces, was quoted by a local news agency as saying. >>> Deborah Haynes, Defence Editor | Tuesday, May 11, 2010