According to US officials familiar with the situation, Iran successfully
tested a Shahab-3 missile on Wednesday. The missile was fired from the country’s south toward an area near the capital of Tehran, and traveled about 600 miles.
Analysts say they believe the test of the medium-range ballistic missile
by Iran is intended to improve its accuracy. At the same time, some
Western officials are seeing the test as a provocation.
That’s because the test happened roughly in line with Britain announcing
new naval operations in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. This was
a reaction to Iran seizing a British tanker last week, itself a
reaction to Britain seizing an Iranian tanker on July 4.
There is no reason to think an Iranian missile test on Iranian territory
is a huge deal, but US and British tensions against Iran means it is
almost inevitable to be blown out of proportion, with the US likely to
take the matter to the UN.
Happy News.
Every country can test missiles except the ones we don’t like.
Missiles like these are practically useless without a nuclear warhead.
Philosophically yes…however, they can deliver 1200 cluster bombs, in 5 mirv warheads. Nasty weapon on any target, except ships at sea. Hardly “useless”
Then there should be no problem.
What makes you think Iran hasn’t gotten any nuclear warheads since 1979?
Every piece of evidence about their nuclear program pretty much proves they do not have any nukes or any interest in nukes. And no other country would give them one due to concerns of being blamed for doing so.
So, no, Iran does not have nukes, has no interest in nukes, and would have no use case even if they did want one. Nukes are useless unless you have enough to be a credible threat to another nuclear power. Iran can never catch up to Israel, let alone the US and has repeatedly said they understand that.
Iran didn’t drop two nukes on Japan.
It depends on how accurate they are. If you can drop a ton of high explosive accurately (the Shahab-3 is allegedly accurate to around a hundred feet), that is not useless.
in a general sense, maybe but in iran’s particular situation having the proven ability to strike anywhere in the persian gulf from anywhere within iran means they can’t claim to want to create a buffer to protect shipping since iran could target the straights even from its northern borders.
I was about to be impressed that Faux News was so neutral, until I got to this line: “…global powers that promised an easing of sanctions if Iran backed off its nuclear ambitions.” (having nuclear power plants. How nefarious. )
Iran testing missiles? Who cares. Hezbollah has an estimated 120,000 missiles in Lebanon. The Israeli Iron Dome, would struggle to contain such an overwhelming barrage of rockets if we attacked Iran. That fact might be the biggest reason why we’re not about to attack Iran anytime soon, if reason and logic was indeed why we go to war. Sadly, that is not the case. False-flag event in the Persian Gulf, coming right up, folks.