And Iran continues with even more ballistic missile tests

Iran test-fired two ballistic missiles Wednesday, state media reported, just a day after its earlier missile tests that Washington suspected violated a U.N. resolution.

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The two Qadr missiles were fired from the Alborz Mountains in northern Iran. They hit targets 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) away in the southeast of the country, Press TV reported.

One of the missiles, the Qadr-F, had a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) and the other, the Qadr-H, had a range of 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles), according to the report. It cited Brig. Gen. Amirali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ aerospace division.

The test firing, the continuation of a large-scale, two-day military drill, was “in line with the country’s defense doctrine,” the report said.

The Islamic Revolution Guards said the tests showed the country’s “full readiness to confront all kinds of threats against the Revolution, establishment and territorial integrity,” state media reported Tuesday.

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