Iran successfully tests surface to surface ballistic missile

by Infidelesto on May 20, 2009 · Comments

No big deal, I’m sure those ballistic missiles are for “peaceful” purposes.  Oh and those “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” don’t mean a thing.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran test-fired a missile capable of striking Israel, U.S. Mideast bases and Europe on Wednesday—a show of strength touted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he battles for re-election next month against more moderate opponents.The U.S. responded by saying Iran must choose between destabilizing the Middle East or accepting the dialogue offered by President Barack Obama. The U.S. leader threatened earlier this week that Iran could face further international sanctions if it does not respond positively by year-end to U.S. attempts to open negotiations on its nuclear program. 

 Israel said the test appeared to be Iran’s response to a positive meeting on Monday between Obama and new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

U.S. officials confirmed the launch and Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said in Washington that Iran is at a crossroads and must choose its course.

“They can either continue on this path of continued destabilization in the region or they can decide that they want to pursue relationships with the counties in the region and the United States that are more normalized,” said Whitman. “Our concerns are obviously based on nuclear ambitions and the implications that long- and medium-range missiles have with respect to that,” he added. 

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  • Peacekeeperofus
    U guyz are mad about Iran. I think u know about FATMAN & LITTLE BOY. Who invented this? And used it on local people?
  • Beejj
    What point are you trying to make? What's that about "local" people? Would you care to enter into a discussion about the morality of using the fission bombs on Japan in 1945? If so, first consider events on Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, OK?
  • JEWHAWK
    No,we are not mad.We are trying to SURVIVE.

    Both Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239 bombs built in 1945
    were MAGNIFICENT weapons used properly against an
    EVIL enemy,the Imperial Japanese Military Junta and its
    "god",the infamous emperor HIROHITO.


    I am PROUD that many Jews participated in the Manhattan Project,
    such Robert Oppenheimer,Albert Einstein,Emílio Segré,Leo Szillard,Niels Böhr,Richard Feynman,Isidore
    Rabi,Julian Schwinger,Hans Bethe and Edward Teller.
  • SirWilhelm
    More threats of sanctions, there have been sanctions in effect against Iran for 30 years. Those sanctions were increased when Ahmandinejad resumed their nuclear program after he was elected. They have had NO effect. Threats of more sanctions have no effect. Obama is an ignorant fool to think otherwise. This missle launch is thumbing his nose at Obama by Ahmandinejad. Actions speak louder than words.
  • Kal_El
    Now that's funny, because, as I recall, Iran has been in range of Israel's missiles for the last 4 decades or more...
  • JEWHAWK
    I don't have any information about Israeli missile-launching capability throughout
    the last 40 years,but I reckon it's more like 10 years than 40,specially due GPS technology.
    The other issue is the capability to make warheads SMALL enough to fit in a rather tight space that exist in a missile's payload in order to carry unconventional warfare into the enemy's lair.
    A 2,000 lbs conventional warhead would kill scores of people into populated areas,but rather ineffective to be used against underground bunkers,if it'd be detonated on the surface.I guess that only bunker-buster bombs could penetrate such targets.
  • Bronwyn
    Excellent English.
  • JEWHAWK
    I wonder what Britain would do if instead of threatening Israel,Iranian
    MADMAN were doing that to the British?

    Still,the majority of Europeans seems to accept the fact that the Jewish
    State could be targeted with those daily and deadly threats of being
    ANHILATED...

    Would that be the infamous "public opinion" that thinks Israel should
    not defend itself?
    Oh yeah...that's the very same.
    This time we are NOT living during the 1930's anymore.The European
    Jewry actually BELIEVED that what Hitler would do some years later
    would be IMPOSSIBLE.The Europeans HELPED the Nazis,specially the
    poles,hungarians,french,romenians and ukranians.

    Are those the SAME folks who are lecturing US on how to defend
    ourselves?

    Will america allow Israel being hit by some unconventional warhead
    and do nothing?

    SOMETHING IS GONNA HAPPEN.

    AND SOON.
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