Countdown to latest Iranian missile test underway: US intel officials

Iran is preparing to conduct a ballistic missile test within the next 10 days, American intelligence officials said Thursday. Such a test would mark Tehran's latest violation of a UN resolution that endorses Tehran's nuclear deal with Western powers and bars Iran from conducting long-range missile tests. Western intelligence organizations closely monitoring Tehran's efforts to build a "space launch vehicle" at the Semnan complex, about 200 kilometers east of the Iranian capital, claim that the base is being used to camouflage the country's efforts to develop and manufacture nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.

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