ISRAEL SECURITY Iranian involvement

Other developments in the Middle East:

A rocket fired at Israel by Palestinians earlier this month was made in Iran, an Israeli lawmaker and security officials said Tuesday. The origins of the rocket, which hit the Israeli town of Ashkelon on Jan. 3, offered a further indication of ties between Gaza’s militants and Iran’s hard-line Islamic regime. The military would not comment on the rocket’s provenance at the time, but on Tuesday, Isaac Ben-Israel, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s ruling Kadima party, said the projectile was manufactured by Iran, Israel’s most bitter enemy.

Source: Associated Press