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Iran conducted multiple ballistic missile tests Tuesday, defying US sanctions imposed earlier this year. Video provided by AFP Newslook
A handout picture released on March 8, 2016 by Sepah News, the online news site and public relations arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard, shows a member of the Revolutionary Guards next to a missile launcher in an underground tunnel at an undisclosed location in Iran.(Photo: STRINGER, AFP/Getty Images)
Iran test-fired two ballistic missiles, one of them<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the phrase "Israel should be wiped off the Earth"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>written on it<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Hebrew,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Iranian media reported Wednesday.
The country’s semiofficial Fars news agency said the missiles were fired at a target 870 miles away.
It came the day after<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Iran's Revolutionary Guard<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said it test-fired several ballistic missiles as part of a military exercise.
The official IRNA news agency said the aim was to show the Islamic Republic’s “deterrent power” and “all-out readiness to counter any threat.”
Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after giving joint statements in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem on March 9, 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: DEBBIE HILL, AFP/Getty Images)
Speaking during a news conference with<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden said if<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Iran breaks the terms of the nuclear deal<span style="color: Red;">*</span>it reached with world powers last year, "we will act.”
“A<span style="color: Red;">*</span>nuclear-armed Iran is an absolutely unacceptable threat to Israel, to the region and the United States.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>If in fact they break the deal, we will act,” he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>told reporters.
Biden also<span style="color: Red;">*</span>criticized Palestinians for “failure to condemn”<span style="color: Red;">*</span>stabbing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>attacks that killed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a Vanderbilt University graduate student<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and a war veteran in Israel<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on Tuesday.
Israel didn't immediately comment on the reports of the missile tests.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The U.S implemented sanctions against 11 people and companies involved in Iran's ballistic missile program on Jan. 17.
U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Tuesday said that Washington would review the reported tests and raise them in the U.N. Security Council to seek an "appropriate response" if they are confirmed, Reuters reported.
"We also continue to aggressively apply our unilateral tools to counter threats from Iran's missile program," he added.
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U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters Tuesday that the U.N. was looking into the reports. "It's important that Iran live up to its obligations under the (nuclear) deal," he said.
Iran<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Revolutionary Guard<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafa on Tuesday said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"the security of Iran is the security of the region, and we will do our utmost to ensure our country's security," Fars<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reported.
He added:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"It is the enemies of the Islamic Revolution and regional security that should be afraid of the (Iran<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Revolutionary Guard)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>missiles."
Many<span style="color: Red;">*</span>international economic sanctions<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on Iran were lifted on Jan. 16 after<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a landmark deal with the United States and five other world powers in July last year to curb<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Iran's nuclear program<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in return for an end to sanctions.
The U.S implemented the sanctions related to the missile program the following day.
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