(Ha'aretz) Gili Cohen and Jonathan Lis - Iran has an arsenal of 450 missiles in striking distance of Israel, Brig. Gen. Itay Baron, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research section, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday. In addition, neighboring Syria has 3,000 rockets and missiles with ranges of 70 to 700 km. Baron said the missiles were not very precise, but its surface-to-air Russian-made defense systems were quite technologically advanced.
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