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JERUSALEM [MENL] -- Western intelligence agencies have concluded that most, if not all, of the missiles unveiled and fired by Iran during its week-long military exercise in the Gulf were copies of former East Bloc missiles.
Several leading analysts who serve as consultants to the Western intelligence community said Teheran fired Chinese and Russian weapons and claimed them as indigenous during the Holy Prophet exercise, which ended on Thursday. They said Teheran exaggerated the capabilities of the weapons in an attempt to deter the United States from an attack on Teheran's nuclear facilities.
"Are they deterring?" asked Uzi Rubin, the former director of the Israel Missile Defense Organization. "Yes. I went to Europe last week and everybody there is talking about diplomatic solutions [to the Iranian nuclear crisis]."
[On Thursday, Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said the IRGC test-fired 10 missiles during the Gulf exercise. He said the weapons would undergo serial production and additional new missiles would be fired in the "near future."]
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