	iran has anti  missiles near gulf paper iran has deployed about six large missiles near the strait of hormuz which increase the threat to ping in the gulf the new york times said the paper quoted u s intelligence sources as saying the missiles appeared to be of a chinese design known as hy which is based on the soviet ssn or styx missile styx missiles have a range of up to miles it said the missiles had been deployed at two sites and quoted a naval analyst as saying they could be used to sink a supertanker and block the strait of hormuz missiles now used by iran had only a fraction of the explosive power of the styx and could sink a supertanker only with a lucky hit the paper said none of the new missiles had been fired yet it added the cbs television network reported on friday that iran had installed new missiles along the gulf and said washington had warned tehran not to use them against civilian ping reuter 
