A website affiliated with the Iranian regime, Assar Iran, claimed Monday that Iran has more than 600 missiles pointed at targets in Israel. Missiles are also locked on United States positions in Iraq, according to sources in the Islamic Republic. 
The missiles, identified as Shihab-3s, will be launched if either Iran or Syria are attacked.
The missiles, identified as Shihab-3s, will be launched if either Iran or Syria are attacked, the website warned. The unmodified Shihab-3 ("Meteor" in Persian) is assumed to have a range of 1,300 kilometers (approximately 800 miles), capable of striking targets in Israel. Several years ago, Iran claimed to have increased the range of its missiles to 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles).
The Assar Iran story could not be independently confirmed; however, it appears to reiterate information published in a Qatari newspaper in July of this year. According to the July 15, 2007, edition of Al-Watan, the Iranian army was targeting 600 sites in Israel for ballistic missile strikes in the event of an American operation against Iran. Quoting diplomatic sources in Syria, Al-Watan reported that Iran warned Israel and the US that it has the capability to destroy all of its selected targets in Israel.
On Monday, France and Holland took a hardened line against Iran over its non-cooperation with United Nations oversight of the Iranian nuclear program. As the UN Security Council prepared to discuss UN sanctions on Iran, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen were quoted as advocating a European Union regime of sanctions in the event that the Security Council could not come to agreement on the issue.
In an interview on Sunday, Kouchner addressed the options facing the West in relation to Iran's nuclear program and said, "We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war." He called Iranian nuclear weapons a "real danger for the whole world."
Mohammed El-Baradei, the head of the United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency, criticized statements threatening the use of force against Iran as "hype" on Monday. The use of force to stop the Iranian nuclear program should only be considered if authorized by the UN, he said. El-Baradei's statement was seen as a response to comments by the French Foreign Minister.
"I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation," El-Baradei added, "where 700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons." El-Baradei was apparently attributing Iraqi civilian deaths in terrorist attacks to the decision to topple Saddam Hussein's government in 2003.