September 22, 2006 :: AP :: News
Iran held a large military parade on September 22, marking the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Iran-Iraq War. The procession took place in southern Tehran near the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and included two medium-range Shahab-3 ballistic missiles. The Shahab-3 is believed to have a range of between 1,200 and 2,000 km, and is capable of targeting Israel, Turkey, the Indian subcontinent, and U.S. forces stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf. Zelzal 1 and Nazeat missiles were also present, as well as battle tanks. Iranian Vice President Parviz Davoodi oversaw the parade, standing in for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly. In his speech, Davoodi stated that Iran’s armed forces would fight back “like lightning” against any attack from the enemies. “We can defend our motherland and the Islam, we want peace but we tell the expansionists not to try to launch an aggression against Iran,” he said. Iran conducted a similar parade on September 22 last year.
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