Just 1 of 7 Iranian ballistic missiles launched at IS hit its intended target — report

19 June 2017, 8:10 pm

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Channel 2 reports that of the seven ballistic missiles launched by Iran at Islamic State targets in Syria, just one reached its intended target.

The launch was part of “Iran trying to play at being a great power,” the channel’s Mideast analyst Ehud Ya’ari explains. “There was no operational need” to attack IS from afar, he claims.

But three of the missiles, launched from a Kurdish region in eastern Iran, didn’t even reach Syria, falling in Iraqi territory. Another one struck hundreds of meters away from its intended target. A fifth hit the Deir Ezzor region, far from the IS installation it was aimed at, Ya’ari says.

There is no word on the fate of a sixth missile.