Israel’s vice prime minister recently revealed that Iran has a missile under development with a range estimated to be 6,000 miles. In fact, it is apparently the same missile type under construction at an Iranian research-and-development facility, which was damaged by a mysterious explosion in November just outside of Tehran.
“That’s the Great Satan,” Mr. Yaalon said, using the well-known pejorative term that Iranian officials have used for the US. “It was aimed at America, not at us.”
If true, Yaalon’s claim would put Iran’s missile development program into a new league. Until now, most arms analysts have estimated that the range of Iranian missiles is limited to about 1,500 miles – enough, to be sure, to reach Israel and parts of Europe. But analysts have speculated very little on research into or development of a longer-range missile.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
6,000 miles downrange from Tehran brings the bulls-eye nearly exactly to Boston. If said missile were launched near Iran’s western border, nearly 400 more miles of range could be tacked on, bringing the bulls-eye to Washington DC. So as you can clearly see, the entire northeastern US corridor from Boston to New York to Washington DC will theoretically be in range should such a missile come to fruition. Couple that with a nuclear device… you get the picture.
If this report turns out to be accurate, this brings the game to an entirely new level.
Yaalon (Israeli vice prime minister) said in his speech that the West does not yet realize how much of a threat is posed by Iran, which he called “a nightmare for the free world.” In reality, he said, Israel in the Iranian regime’s eyes is only the “little Satan,” while America, as leader of the West, is “the larger Satan.”
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Badmitton with Iran is more like the issue. The U.S. has thousands of nuclear missles that could blow Iran off the map. Probably in 15 minutes. The U.S. needs to look at diplomatic efforts to bring a more sensible regime or government into the county in the future.
You can’t be diplomatic with lunatics.
Especially those who would be willing to die to further their ideology.
Mutual Assured Destruction (M.A.D.) doesn’t apply to these people.
Diplomacy didn’t do much to lessen the danger from the leader of a certain fanatical leader in Germany during the late thirties.
who are you kidding? dude, pull the plank out of your own eye before you comment on the speck in others eye. american foreign policy is COMPLETELY driven by imperial nationalism and christian apocolyptic ideology.
the only reason we support israel is because a bunch of crazy lunatics in congress think the book of revelations is real.
go ahead and make fun of the iranians about the return of the 12th imam. meanwhile millions of americans are seriously waiting at home waiting for the trumpet to sound and for the rapture to occur. but, ur right… those iranians are real savages. they aren’t sophisticated like us americans.
you and far too many others lack even the most basic level of insight and logic. it’s appalling and thousands and thousands of people are going to die because of it. congrats!
Your Right Beano there is no reason to believe Iran can use any reasonable Diplomacy when dealing with the lunatics in control. Especially like you say “Especially those who would be willing to die to further their ideology.”, of big bank control, big Gov. spending and a Luciferian / Bully doctrine over every faction of the world. Sad to say it will be little Joe Blow / all American down the street to pay the ultimate price.
you are absolutely correct! america needs regime change!
israel is more of a threat to world peace than Persia ever was.
Mike,
Please enlighten us as to how Israel is a greater threat than Iran (note that the arabs do not refer to themselves as Persians)?
USC
The way that it was explained to me by an Iranian exchange student is that Iranian Christians refer to themselves as being Persian.
I’m going sit out the Arab/Israeli thing this time.
Unfortunately, those folks are not the ones in power in Iran, but I get your point….I was over generalizing.
Regards
hear, hear!
israel has a right to security like i have a right to be left alone in my home some one out side starts yelling that they want to kill you and had a loaded gun pointed in a window what would you do
so by your same logic iran is justified in it’s missile developemtn considering that america has at least three aircraft carrier groups in teh gulf of oman, has tens of thousands of troops in kuwait. has it’s central command bases in doha. has tens of thousands of state department mercenaries in iraq on it’s western border. has tens of thousands of troops in afghanistan on it’s northern border. oh, and it’s building at least two new bases on barren islands in the gulf of oman to stage a war from against iran.
plus israel actually has sea, air, and land based nuclear assets developed and weaponized and if you think they aren’t pointed at tehran, i’ll kiss your ass.
plus america and israel have been murdering iranian scientists, infecting computers worldwide with stuxnet, and tons of other stuff nobody mentions because it’s not on the AIPAC propaganda list.
your thinking (“if we do it, it’s for freedom; if they do it, it’s for jihad”) is dangerous and fallacious.
@sam.
I rather doubt that Israel has sea and land based nuclear delivery systems. No real point considering their threat environment. They do have nuclear capable air assets. The US sold, or gave, many of them to them.
They do have advanced missile systems like Iron Dome. Defensive in nature.
Air assets don’t need to be pre-targeted. Hopefully you and chad neibaur live close to each other. I imagine he’ll want dinner and a movie before you pucker up.
Got any real proof on who is killing the scientists? I just did a Wiki on Stuxnet. Mentions US, Israel, or other ‘Western powers”‘.
Please don’t respond with that “AIPAC propaganda” rant. I’d never heard of them before this thread.
Must be old age, but, I didn’t see where chad used either ‘freedom’ or ‘jihad’ in his post.
Apologies to chad if your not male.
thanks for the help brother…..i never said jihad look if iran only wanted nuclear power i know there are other ways to get it done no need for secret underground bunkers and the cloak and dagger act frankly i think that it would be ok if they had nuclear power plants but developing missiles to carry nuclear warheads isnt the best way to send the we come in peace message let me be clear I DONT LIKE ANYONE HAVING NUKES this isnt some insecure american talk while i agree america has issues too it would be reckless to let ideological maniacs who hate the thought of jews next door do something dumb
I think Israel got their nuclear technology/material from the French. For a long time, the Frenck were nuclear whores.
“If this report turns out to be accurate…”
The question is, if it doesn’t turn out to be accurate, will that news warrant its own blog post and headline?
Good point!
We’ll probably never hear…
Even if “This” report doesn’t turn out to be accurate, it’s only a matter of time before reality sets in.
there is absolutely ZERO evidence that is not derived from anonymous administration or AIPAC sources that supports your statement. iran hasn’t invaded a single country in the modern era.
leon panetta admits they don’t have nukes. stop justifying AIPAC propaganda.
@sam.
I was trying to avoid the political side of this, but no longer can.
The leadership of Iran has been vocal with respect to it’s hatred of both Israel and the United States. I would count them as a ‘source’.
The fact that they haven’t invaded anybody lately is because they have a third rate military. Perhaps they are looking to make up for lost time.
It is obvious to me that Iran is a supporter of Hezbollah. What do you call someone who arms your enemies? I call them enemies.
Please don’t respond with that “AIPAC propaganda” rant. I’d never heard of them before this thread.
Iran probably doesn’t have nukes. Preventing them from getting them is what the sanctions and all that is all about.
so we can bomb the shit out of iran due to a lack of adoration? nobody is allowed to hate the united states? iran is a sovereign fucking nation wiht defined borders. guess what, they can do whatever they please within their borders and imperial america ought not have anything to say about it. they don’t have to love us. they don’t have to sell their oil denominated in dollars. they don’t have to do what we say just because we say so.
america can invade iraq (twice), lebanon, afghanistan, somalia, and libya and we expect appreciation from iran over this? america labels iran as part of the “axis of evil” and still you villainize them for their “hatred of america.” america was responsible for a coup d’etat in 1954 in iran. that’s right, our CIA overthrew their democratically elected government and installed the shah. pretty nice of us, eh? but, we also provide military support to a ton of arab nations who oppose iran (saudi arabia, qatar, kuwait, bahrain, and other emirate states. we funded saddam’s invasion of iran in the 1980’s with suitcases filled with money delivered to saddam by yoru friend and mine, donald rumsfeld. america has covert wars ongoing in yemen, somalia, and pakistan. GO AHEAD AND CONTINUE TO DELUDE YOURSELF THAT IT IS IRAN THAT IS THE REAL THREAT.
yes, iran supports hezbollah. america and israel support ahwazi and baluchi ethnic minorities within iran. you don’t seem to mind that so much.
is iran awesome? no. do they deserve to have billions of dollars of munitions dropped on their cities? HELL NO! do american deserve to have their economy further decimated by more debt to fund more military excursions? HELL NO!
i have to move because i disagree with billions and billions of dollars going toward ill advised war half way around the world? sounds brilliant.
Do as USA tells you, or we’ll send you tons of laser guided freedom.
I wouldn’t be all that concerned about the missile threat. Missiles with that range are common. The US and the Soviets, er Russians, have had them for decades. Not rocket science, actually it is, to build them. Accurate guidance is harder. Look at Saddam and the Scuds. They could hit a country, barely. The biggest loss for the US was a Scud that was hit by a Patriot. Might have improved it’s, the Scud, accuracy. Sigh.
I think that the tramp freighter is a more likely threat. That’s, on the seacoast, is where most people live.
Come on sam and mortimer… you guys aren’t going to change each other’s mind in a blog’s comment thread. Lets keep the personal attacks at bay and continue if you wish with reasonable argumentative debate. Heated articulated debate is good though.
so you approve his comment but not mine? that’s bullshit.
Hey sam, all your comments have been approved, barely. What, is it a full moon tonight?
@ken. Sorry. I *really* did want to sit out the political side.
No worries – Sometimes a good healthy political debate is a good thing. It certainly points out where everyone sits on the fence, or which side of the fence!
Simple solution for Iran… move their launcher to the western border, about 300-400 miles closer to our shores from Tehran. But as others have mentioned, it’s one thing to sling a ballistic missile, but its quite another to bring it down on target. Additionally, if Iran is truly developing such a missile, with the intent to reach us, then don’t you think that their designers will factor in these things into their design, such as the earths rotation? Yes, I would think so…
I do believe the U.S, Navy has an Aegis boat sitting off our eastern shore to protect Washington D.C and all of our eastern cities, ready to take out any reentry vehicle with a warhead.
We will respond in kind and turn their capital into glass.
Reentry vehicles are too fast for Ageis. We have to knock out the missle in it’s boost phase. Politics aside, remember that Iran doesn’t have to invent the guidance technology. We did that for them decades ago. It’s probably all on the internet. There are hurdles for Iran, but mostly in things like manufacturing ability. They will probably buy what they need instead of manufacturing it in-house. USA has become a tyranical bully, but Iran is not exactly pure as the driven snow.
Ref. The Ruwanda, darfour, etc. mass murdering that borderlines genocide…those are the situations where the UN peace keepers are supposed to “keep the peace.” that is why we donate Billions to the UN annually. The US military is not a global police. Your post kind of misses the whole “national interest” point on when the US should or shouldn’t take military action. If you think the US military should take action in places like Ruwanda, you should vote to disband the UN and use those funds to invest in our military.
Regards