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Iran Openly Flouts Obama, Launches New Ballistic Missile

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One of the truly interesting things about Iran’s stepped up involvement in Syria (be it through Tehran’s various Shiite militias, the Quds, or most visibly, via Hezbollah) is that it demonstrates an outright disregard for the nuclear deal. 

That’s certainly not an attempt to scold Iran. In fact, it’s never been entirely clear why Washington gets to play world nuclear police with Tehran when history has definitively proven that if there’s any country that can’t be trusted with nuclear bombs, it’s the US. 

That said, the Ayatollah’s ravings leave something to be desired when it comes to diplomacy and if you’re going to threaten to wipe entire countries off the map you shouldn’t necessarily be surprised when those other countries try to prevent you from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Well the ink on the deal is barely dry and not only has Iran i) effectively invaded Syria, and ii) flouted inspectors at Parchin, they’ve now test-fired a long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile. Here’s WSJ:

Iran test-fired a new generation of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles on Sunday, its state news agency reported, a move that could complicate the implementation of the country’s July nuclear deal even as its parliament ratified the historic pact’s outlines.

 

Iran tested a long-range missile called the Emad, which Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said was capable of precise control, according to a report from the Islamic Republic News Agency.

 

“We don’t ask anyone’s permission to enhance our defense power or missile capability and will firmly pursue our defense plans, particularly in the field of missiles,” Mr. Dehghan said. 

Clearly:

More, from The New York Times:

Iran tested a new guided long-range ballistic missile on Sunday, hours before Parliament, in a rowdy session, approved the generalities of the nuclear agreement reached in July between Iran and world powers, the state news agency IRNA reported.

 

The missile launch may have violated the terms of the agreement, reached in Vienna with six world powers. According to some readings of the deal, it placed restrictions on Iran’s ambitious missile program.

 

Experts have been debating the interpretation of a United Nations Security Council resolution, adopted a few days after the accord was agreed upon, that bars Iran from developing missiles “designed to carry nuclear warheads.”

As CNN goes on to report (or “suggest”, whichever is more accurate when you’re referring to Western media), the Emad will give Iran the capability to strike Israel for the first time:

The Emad would be Tehran's first precision-guided missile with the range to reach its enemy, Israel.

 

Israel is bitterly opposed to Iran's nuclear program, and observers have speculated that it could be prepared to launch pre-emptive strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in an effort to derail their progress.

 

Dehqan said following the launch that the Emad would greatly increase Iran's strategic deterrence capability, state media reported.

Again, what’s always amusing about the Israel-Iran dynamic is how Israel is fond of threatening to launch “pre-emptive” strikes to prevent Iran from developing the capability to defend itself. As noted above, no one is apologizing for the Ayatollah’s extreme lack of decorum, but the notion of pre-emptively attacking another country because it’s trying to develop the weapons you already have is hypocrisy plain and simple. Here’s a bit more about the missile, again from CNN:

Anthony Cordesman, a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in October last year that the Emad was a variant of Iran's existing Shahab-3 long-range missile, "but with a maneuvering reentry vehicle to improve system accuracy and complicate missile defense."

 

The liquid-propelled rocket had a range of 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles) and was accurate to within 500 meters (1,640 feet) of the target.

 

The rocket could carry a 750-kilogram (1,653-pound) payload and was scheduled for deployment some time after 2016, he wrote.

 

The Shahab-3 is based on the Nodong, a North Korean missile, according to a paper by Michael Elleman, a researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a UK-based think tank.

 

Cordesman's report said Tehran has been steadily developing its missile technology, focusing in particular on improvements to guidance systems.

 

Its existing missiles systems had "poor accuracy and uncertain reliability," he wrote, giving them limited military effectiveness.

 

The improving missile arsenal gave Tehran "a longer range strike capability that its aging air force largely lacks," he wrote.

 

Iran's air force, once the largest in the Gulf, degraded following the break with the West that occurred during the 1979 revolution, due to a lack of access to spare parts, maintenance and pilot training, according to Elleman.

Since then, Tehran has focused on developing its missile capability, and now boasts the "largest and most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East," according to Elleman. Israel's stockpile was more capable, but smaller, he wrote.

And so the embarrassment of The White House's "historic" nuclear accord continues as Iran just simply doesn't care and will apparently continue to exploit any and all ambiguities to its advantage up to and including building new ballistic missle systems, an act which certainly goes against the spirit of the deal if not the letter. 

But again, imposing crippling economic sanctions on countries in order to deter their defense buildup (Iran) or otherwise force them into acting in a way that fits your definition of being an internationally responsible country (Russia) is a fool's errand to the extent that it only serves to aggravate the situation and perpetuates still more of the very same behavior you're trying to deter in the first place. Need proof? Just see the picture shown above. 

 

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Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:46 | 6658306 SumTing Wong
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So, we need to draw another line in the sand and then all will be ok...right? Anybody?

(We're fucked as a "superpower". That ship sailed over the past 15 years...or longer...)

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:50 | 6658325 The Juggernaut
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If you're wondering, around now is the time to secede from the union. Leave while the emperor is weak.  Everyone on 3...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:54 | 6658354 AlaricBalth
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It's not a red line in the sand. It's just blood!!!

https://quinersdiner.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/mrz082313dapr2013082312...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:28 | 6658477 pods
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"According to some readings of the deal, it placed restrictions on Iran’s ambitious missile program."

Seriously, a deal was struck where this shit wasn't explicitly spelled out?

Either it was against it or not.  

pods

Edit:  Just saw the range and accuracy.  1000 mile range, and 1/4 mile accuracy?  What is the WWII and this is the V2?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:53 | 6658598 DetectiveStern
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They should sell the design to the US seems far more efficient than their missiles. 13 months and one still hasn't found a target in Syria...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:58 | 6658621 mvsjcl
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Look at the tax code, pods, and its multitudinous built-in "loop-holes." Oops!

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:54 | 6658355 Sturm und Drang
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Yes.

"I get the sense that the lack of will to fully invoke the 2nd amendment decreases inversely to the increased chaos within the government and the opportunity said chaos provides. It has been said one should never let a good crisis go to waste."

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:57 | 6658372 LasVegasDave
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just a bunch of misunderstood, peace loving boy scouts, those persians.

no greater assholes hath the world known.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:07 | 6658974 caconhma
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The old saying goes: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Think about it. This is how the world is going around

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:36 | 6658811 401K of Dooom
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No, that occurred on Tuesday the 3rd, November, 1992.  That's when Sick-Dick Willy and his "wife" Hillzilla were elected.  Thank you Womyn, for screwing this country.  Now go and be a love toy for the barbarians! 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:47 | 6658312 Winston Churchill
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Rub his nose in that steaming pile a little more.

I'm beginning to enjoy myself.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:56 | 6658324 1000yrdstare
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I believe it is their right to build whatever they want, We have a stock pile of shit we will probably never use and have to update every few years. welcome to the arms race, Darth Cheney thanks you...

 

And a downvote from Bill Kristol....FUCK YOU BILL!

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:57 | 6658376 bamawatson
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the issue, sir, is not some abstract  "right" you reference; the issue is their adherence to the legacy agreement touted by our lord n saviour b hussein homobama

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:32 | 6658517 1000yrdstare
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So you think "we" should tell everyone else in the world what to do?....

You sir, should tell that to Israel.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:53 | 6658345 VladLenin
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Obama's response: That's a nice missile you got there big boy, but do you know how to use it.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:54 | 6658349 FedFunnyMoney
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This is the missile that will carry their nuclear warheads when developed and announced.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:07 | 6658423 Buckaroo Banzai
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I'm sure they already have some nuclear warheads that they bought on the black market, or from North Korea-- just like the missile technology.

Of course, now they are busy building their own, so they'll have that too.

All going according to Valerie Jarrett's plan.

"I am Iranian by birth and of my Islamic Faith. I am also an American citizen and seek to help change America to be a more Islamic country. My faith guides me and I feel like it is going well in the transition of using freedom of religion in America against itself” -- Valerie Jarrett, Stanford, 1977

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:33 | 6658519 Winston Churchill
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Its well known in the intelligence community that Iran aquired mirv warheads, and buses,

during the disintregation of the soviet union.Some even think they got

an entire ICBM on the balck market.Whether the Ayatolloh knows about it is another question.

I have no doubt that MOSSAD does though.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:56 | 6658350 FedFunnyMoney
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Dup.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:57 | 6658374 Sturm und Drang
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You'll note the Israeli's haven't fucked around with the N. Koreans.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:55 | 6658356 aliki
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don't forget, they also convicted the washington post journalist over the weekend. basically obama got nothing out of a "deal" where he handed over $150 billion in sanctions $$$.

handed over a deserter for 5 taliban commanders.

architect of the NAFTA-Asia (which will ship MORE manufacturing jobs OUT of the country) & DOESN'T deal with the single most pressing issue, currency manipulation.

absolutely no wonder trump is ahead in the polls. our deal making under this clown has been the absolute worst ive seen since clinton where the "giving away of this country" began with NAFTA.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:13 | 6658695 Omen IV
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the money didnt belong to the USA - was stolen and now in process of being returned

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:56 | 6658363 Bryan
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I learnt a new word today, thank you.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:56 | 6658367 danepol
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"... Israel is fond of threatening to launch “pre-emptive” strikes to prevent Iran from developing the capability to defend itself". Got that wrong. Iran threatens continusly to wipe Israel off the map. Israel promises to defend hereself. Idiots and bigots get to understand that in reverse.

 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:02 | 6658397 Sturm und Drang
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Iran's voice is just one in a large chorus singing the same song.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:57 | 6658614 Winston Churchill
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They threaten to wipe the REGIME in Jerusalem off the map.

As the Farsi word for regime is the same as the English word, the consistent mistranslation

would seem quite deliberate.Don't let the facts stop you though, you piece of warmongering slime

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:14 | 6658699 mvsjcl
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I say that there's a great need for this "regime wiping" all over the world.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 19:45 | 6660730 BigJim
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 They threaten to wipe the REGIME in Jerusalem off the map.

Actually, they didn't even threaten that; look up the transcript, he said the regime would be "erased from the pages of time", the context being the fall of the regimes in Iraq, the USSR, and the Shah.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:56 | 6658369 Glass Seagull
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Just a deterrence show against Tel Aviv.

"Don't touch us, or else we'll touch you with this."

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:56 | 6658370 ToSoft4Truth
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OBama must attack Iran and China.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10:57 | 6658373 blackhand
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No worries, Iran's missile force is just the JV team...oh wait...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:00 | 6658386 danepol
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Something else. Iran long ago boasted missiles capable of reaching Israel. New missiles have much longer range. Now why's that d'ya think? Never stopped chanting death to America. Obama and Kerry say they don't mean it.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:30 | 6658511 Jethro
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Yeah, "Death to America", actually means, "We humbly disagree with the US, but still respect their right to existence."?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:20 | 6658733 farflungstar
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Bummer that whole 1953 Operation Ajax where all manner of opposition to the Shah was wiped out consistently for 25 years or so - culminating in an Islamic republic whose leadership despises what we did to them.

blowback's a bitch

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:08 | 6658388 Ignatius
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Notice how all these stories about Iran and Syria are being framed as "Obama is weak, indecisive and out maneuvered?"  All of which seems true enough, but the solutions being offered effectively/psychologically suggest that we need to be tougher and more assertive, i.e., more of the same insane foreign aggression.  Nice psychological trick being played here that benefits the MIC and all the usual suspects.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:00 | 6658391 undercover brother
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"Again, what’s always amusing about the Israel-Iran dynamic is how Israel is fond of threatening to launch “pre-emptive” strikes to prevent Iran from developing the capability to defend itself. As noted above, no one is apologizing for the Ayatollah’s extreme lack of decorum, but the notion of pre-emptively attacking another country because it’s trying to develop the weapons you already have is hypocrisy plain and simple."

This is probably the dumbest statement anyone (outside of the obama adminstration) has made.  Israels threats of pre-emptive attacks have nothing to do with preventing Iran from defending itself and everything to do with preventing Iran from carrying through with its threats to wipe Israel off the map.  This author is a simpleton and another deaf apologist for the religious lunatics running Iran.  

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:41 | 6658547 Sturm und Drang
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Bullshit, poodle.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:45 | 6659534 maxwellsdemon
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Oh grow up! No one is buying that bullshit about Iran preemptively attacking Israel.  Iran has never said it's going to preemptively attack Israel unless Israel does X, Y, or Z

 

On the other hand, Israel and the US EVERY DAY say they are going to preemptively attack Iran unless Iran does X, Y, and Z in clear language with no ambiguiity.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:06 | 6658419 SpanishGoop
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If Israel goes pre-emptive on Iran, what stance will Syria and Russia take ?

 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:15 | 6658453 Max Steel
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Never gonna happen. They planned 3 strategies to attack Iran's Nuclear Facility but later declined it. 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:50 | 6659546 maxwellsdemon
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If Israel attacks Iran, they are on their own.  The US would lose tens of thousands if they got into the war.  Israel would threaten Iran with nukes if Iran fired backk at Israel, so the US would be the target, probably of Israeli false flag attacks.  The US, not Israel, would bear the casulaties.  Bibi may be crazy enough to do it though because he doesn't care a bit about US casualties, only ISraaeli Jewish casualities.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:07 | 6658424 Argenta
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Years from now when people ask how the heck did Iran get nukes I hope somebody shows them a picture of that traitor Obama.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:51 | 6659558 maxwellsdemon
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well Israel has nukes now because of that traitor Lyndon Johnson

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:15 | 6658429 Teh Finn
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Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:09 | 6658434 jon dough
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Trinitite, anyone?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:19 | 6658470 cn13
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The lack of respect the other world leaders have for Obama is something I never thought I would experience in my life time.

Sad days for Amerika.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:28 | 6658499 Jethro
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Blowback from the world apology tour.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:25 | 6658760 farflungstar
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I'd say the other leaders of the world didn't disrespect George W. Shrub just as much. Two assholes cut from the same strand of bullshit.

 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:28 | 6658496 Jethro
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Not to worry everybody! Obama will just rename "ballistic missile" with something less scary. But, it'll have to be after he gets off of the golf course. Everything will be be fine. The Voice will be on later, and so will NFL Football.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:39 | 6658539 Argenta
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How about renaming to "missle's lives matter".

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:45 | 6658567 Gamma735
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Are we sure this pic is not photoshooped?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:45 | 6658571 nnnnnn
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HEY!  we need your tax money and start the money print machine to start a new arm race    

please give us $100000000000000000 to protect you from the "evil" iran

so we can built another f-35 like project, which cant fly at night and rain

 

 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:01 | 6658634 loregnum
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How dare Iran act as an independent nation! 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:17 | 6658717 Absalon
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If Israel and Iran are enemies it is only because Iran has chosen to make the destruction of Israel a national goal. 

 

Iran's nuclear program is a bigger threat to the lives of Iranians than anything Israel is doing.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:32 | 6658792 Sturm und Drang
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Fuckwit said "make the destruction of Israel a national goal".

Bibi needs no assistance in that matter.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 15:08 | 6659578 maxwellsdemon
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Complete BS Absalon.   Hey can you tell us why Rabbi Yosef,the religious leader of Israel, would say that all NON JEWS are 'beasts of burden' whose only purpose in life is to serev the JEWS???????  There were a million mourners lining the streets of Jerusalem; those were just the men.  So would you agree that 2 to 3 million Israeli Jews believe this Rabbi's pronuncements?

 

Isn't that THE SAME AS HALF OF  ISRAEL DECLARING WAR ON THE WORLD? What should we do about a nation and a group of people who desire to make all of us BEASTS OF BURDEN and SLAVES  to them???

 

Respond Absalon or shut the hell up. 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:47 | 6658875 Herdee
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Add in a little air defence system.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-russian-s-300-sale-to-iran-is-a-big-d...

Just the start of defence systems from China and Russia.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:00 | 6658905 22winmag
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If the petrodollar dies, doesn't the flow of $$$ to the IDF die too?

 

War is expensive.

 

Just ask JPM and the other financiers.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:11 | 6659003 Able Ape
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Hell YEAH! Make Nutty Yahoo and his mental midget minions break out in a sweat....

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:15 | 6659039 giggler321
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I'm sure most American's feel the same way as Iran.  I mean if some president told you that you had to give up your guns because you might shoot someone, how'd you feel?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:24 | 6659097 Son of Captain Nemo
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Why does Iran need to missile test it's own when it's probably got 4 or 5 of these parked off the coast of it's territory?!!!

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:26 | 6659446 Berspankme
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Obie probably gets a little boner over the shape of that missile. Reminds him of Reggie's liftoff

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:32 | 6659469 Graph
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Just a thought of Bibi's buthole above that picture :)

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:38 | 6659493 sbenard
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Obama's middle name(s) should be Neville Chamberlain! He may as well just put a gun to our heads and pull the trigger! His Hubris is so glaring that it's blinding!

Tue, 10/13/2015 - 00:44 | 6661670 onmail1
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Oil producing nations opposed to west must quit SWIFT have their own system.

Advice to Iran : Better develop long range cruise missiles which can move in snake like fashion because west can detect trajectories of ballastic missiles but cruise missiles are much harder. Also the range should be at least  upto Europe , let euroPeons , the pirates & poodles of evil America, feel the heat & fear radiation. It would be better to have a pact with Russia and host at least 50 russian nuclear bombs because America has gifted more than 200 nuclear bombs to its euroPeon followers. Unless you ppl balance it, the west will always work against you.

 

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