Six hundred Iranian Shihab 3 missiles are pointed at targets throughout Israel and will be launched in the event that Syria or Iran are attacked, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards website reported on Monday. According to the report, the missiles were placed in position on Sunday night and are also pointed at locations in Iraq that are used by the coalition forces there.
The Iranian Shihab 3 missile means in Persian meteor or shooting star and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and has a distance range of 1,350 to 1,600 kilometers.
The announcement came after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned that Iran's race to attain nuclear capability should force the world to prepare for the worst. In response,  Iran's official media launched a blistering attack on France and Kouchner, and acused Paris of taking an even harder line than Washington.
"The new occupants of the Elysee want to copy the White House," the state-run IRNA news agency wrote in an editorial, referring to the French presidential palace.
 Mohammed al Baradei head of the International Atomic Energy Association also responded to Kouchner's statements, and declared that options of war must be viewed as a last result, and only with the United Nation's security council's approval.09/17/07

Margot Dudkevitch

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