CHINA and Iran, two countries that top
President Trump’s enemies list, are pushing back against his tough talk
this week with showy and provocative military drills. Iran conducted
military exercises and rolled out new weapons that its leaders said
would help national defense, and China tested a new missile following
Trump’s Twitter assault on Beijing’s expansion in the South China Sea.
Iran’s defense minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan, displayed the
country’s newest weapons, including a guided missile, a grenade
launcher, a rifle and a pistol. The arms would boost the military’s
capabilities in individual combat and in air defense, he said, according
to the Tasnim News Agency.
Iran on Saturday warned Washington
against any hostile actions. Iran conducts military exercise in response
to Trump’s comments on enemies “If the enemy makes a mistake our
roaring missiles will hit their targets,” Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh,
commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force,
said during massive air defense drills, the state-owned Fars News
Agency reported. Iran also warned that if attacked, its missiles would
target the U.S. 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, American installations in
the Indian Ocean and the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
“These points are all within the range
of Iran’s missile systems, and they will be razed to the ground if the
enemy makes a mistake,” Mojtaba Zonour, a member of the Iranian
parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. “And only
seven minutes is needed for the Iranian missile to hit Tel Aviv.”
The threats came after the Trump
administration imposed sanctions Friday on 25 Iranian individuals and
entities supporting the Revolutionary Guards’ ballistic missile program.
The sanctions were triggered by an Iranian ballistic missile test on
Jan. 29 that the U.S. said violated a United Nations Security Council
resolution that prohibits launching missiles capable of carrying a
nuclear weapon. Iran said the missile was not capable of carrying a
nuclear weapon and that testing defensive weapons is its right. – Vanguard
— Feb 7, 2017 @ 19:55 GMT
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