Iran test fires 'long-range' missiles

Tehran tested a number of short- and medium-range missiles on Sunday and said its second uranium enrichment plant, revealed to the world last week, was ready to withstand any attack. The US, UK and others have said the plant was part of Iran's covert plans to build nuclear weapons in defiance of international agreements and contrary to Iran's assertion that its nuclear programme was for civilian purposes only.

Israel has also threatened air strikes to prevent Iran acquiring a nuclear warhead but General Hossein Salami, head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Air Force, said: "We are going to respond to any military action in a crushing manner and it doesn't make any difference which country or regime has launched the aggression."

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