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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5140676.ece
Military Experts: New Iranian Missile Is Old One with a Different Name
[Times-UK] Michael Evans - Washington denounced the claim by Tehran Wednesday that it had test-fired a new surface-to-surface missile with a range of 2,000 km., capable of reaching Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, Iran's defense minister, said the new "Sejil missile" had "extremely high capabilities." Despite the claims, Andrew Brookes of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said: "I think the Iranians just keep on rejigging the same missile and putting a new logo on it. It's basically the Shahab 3 with a different name." "The missiles are rather like the Second World War V2 bombs which scared people but didn't cause mass casualties," he said.