Iran marks 23rd anniversary of war with Iraq

Seven of the missiles were seen being rolled past a podium of the Islamic republic’s leaders on their mobile launchers. "Despite all the pressure from our enemies, we will pursue our policy of detente, but we also insist on becoming stronger militarily, politically and economically," the reformist president Mohammad Khatemi said in a speech at a military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-88 war with Iraq. "It is the Zionist regime which possesses a considerable atomic arsenal and uses the worst forms of terrorism in Palestine while we are partisans of peace, stability and a region free of atomic weapons," he added.