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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s military ambitions are likely to figure high in President Joe Biden’s meetings with Israeli and Saudi leaders on a trip to the Middle East, as Tehran’s expanding missile arsenal bolsters its regional armed power. A day after Tehran and Washington resumed indirect talks to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal in February, Iran unveiled a new domestically-made missile with a range of 1,450 km (900 miles). State TV displayed the new surface-to-surface “Kheibar Shekan” (Kheibar buster) missile, which refers to an ancient Jewish oasis called Kheibar in the Arabian Peninsula’s Hijaz …

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