Thu 10 July 2008, The Independent  Leading article: Do not play
into the hands of the hardliners  The drumbeat for a new
military confrontation in the Middle East is growing more
insistent. Iranian state television yesterday screened images of
the military test-firing of a Shahab-3 rocket, a missile
reportedly capable of striking Israeli territory. This follows a
"rehearsal" last month of a bombing run on Iranian nuclear
enrichment facilities by Israeli fighter planes. Read the
original article.