‘Nuke Aimed at Iran’? Tehran Raises Alarm after Israel Test-Fires Mystery Rocket in Broad Daylight

• ‘Nuke Aimed at Iran’? Tehran Raises Alarm after Israel Test-Fires Mystery Rocket in Broad Daylight
  by https://www.rt.com/
  As the world is abuzz with speculation over Israel’s shadowy “rocket propulsion system” test, Tehran bluntly claimed that the projectile it fired from a base south of Tel Aviv was actually a nuclear-capable missile aimed at Iran.
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  “Israel today tested a nuke-missile, aimed at Iran,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested in a tweet posted on Friday evening. He lamented that the West never complains “about the only nuclear arsenal in West Asia,” but “has fits of apoplexy over our conventional defensive [rockets].”
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  The mysterious missile in question was launched earlier in the day, with Israel’s military remaining conspicuously tight-lipped about it.
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  “The defense establishment conducted a test of a rocket propulsion system, from a base in central Israel,” read a carefully worded tweet that caused much speculation among informed pundits and the media.
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  Further muddying the water, the Defense Ministry didn’t even disclose the location of the “pre-determined” test, but videos and photos that popped up on social media showed a single, long trail of smoke rising from the Palmachim airbase situated south of Tel Aviv.
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  The military installation is believed to have a launch pad for Israel’s secretive Jericho ballistic missiles, which have a range of up to 2,000km. Developed with American assistance, the little-known weapon can be equipped with a sizeable warhead, according to some media reports. 
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