(22 Sep 2011) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of parade to mark the 31st anniversary of the start of Iraq-Iran war
2. Army music band
3. Wide of army units marching past senior Iranian army and Revolutionary Guards commanders
4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff:
"The approach of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran is that of a defensive and preventative approach and Iran does not intend to invade any country in the world."
5. Revolutionary Guards ground troops marching past the podium
6. Various of Fajr missile being carried on a truck
7. Persian Gulf missile system being carried on a truck
8. Mid-range Shahab2 missile in parade, later followed by another Shahab2 missile
9. Another missile being carried on a truck
10. Mid of Qased guided missile
11. Wide of guided missiles
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) General Ahmad Vahidi, Iran''s Defence Minister:
"We domestically manufacture short-range air-defence systems. I can also tell you that we manufacture medium-range air-defence systems as well. 85 percent of combats take place in the short and medium range categories."
13. Wide of media
STORYLINE
Iran marked the 31st anniversary of the start of the Iraq-Iran war, known as the "holy defence" inside Iran, with a military parade and a display of the country''s steadily growing arsenal of short and medium range ballistic missiles.
Like last year, Thursday''s show in Tehran, included the solid-fuel Sajjil and Shahab-2 mid-range missile.
Shahab-2 have a range of about 185 miles (300 kilometres) and 435 miles (700 kilometres) respectively, and Sajjil, with more than 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometres) in range, could pose a threat to Israel and US-allied Arab nations, including some that are home to American military bases.
The parade also included the "Persian Gulf" missile, which is a guided radar-evading missile and has a warhead with 650 kilogrammes (1,433 pounds) of explosive.
The show comes weeks after neighbouring Turkey agreed to host an early warning radar as part of NATO''s missile defence system aimed at countering Iranian missile threats.
Washington hopes to have the radar deployed in Turkey by the end of the year.
Iran has warned such a move would escalate regional tensions.
The Revolutionary Guard controls Iran''s missile programme.
Iran conducts several war games every year, as part of its military self-sufficiency programme that started in 1992, and frequently unveils new weapons and military systems during the drills.
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