Iranian Missile Site?
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Disturbing news:
The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.
The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1 “research rocket” on February 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space programme.
Analysis of the photographs taken by the Digital Globe QuickBird satellite four days after the launch has revealed a number of intriguing features that indicate to experts that it is the same site where Iran is focusing its efforts on developing a ballistic missile with a range of about 6,000km (4,000 miles).
A previously unknown missile location, the site, about 230km southeast of Tehran, and the link with Iran’s long-range programme, was revealed by Jane’s Intelligence Review after a study of the imagery by a former Iraq weapons inspector. A close examination of the photographs has indicated that the Iranians are following the same path as North Korea, pursuing a space programme that enables Tehran to acquire expertise in long-range missile technology.
Geoffrey Forden, a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that there was a recently constructed building on the site, about 40 metres in length, which was similar in form and size to the Taepodong long-range missile assembly facility in North Korea.
Avital Johanan, the editor of Jane’s Proliferation, said that the analysis of the Iranian site indicated that Tehran may be about five years away from developing a 6,000km ballistic missile. This would tie in with American intelligence estimates and underlines why President Bush wants the Polish and Czech components of the US missile defence system to be up and running by 2013.
Now, it’d be nice if 10,000 liberals out there would read this and suddenly realise what a bunch of dunces they’ve been…and how President Bush has been right all along…both about Iran’s membership in the “Axis of Evil”, and about the need for SDI. We won’t get that, of course, but we can still dream about it…
Meanwhile, what do we do about this?
One’s first inclination is to give the Iranians a demonstration in accurate missile targeting and blow the place sky high. But then one thinks this might be too harsh, so one goes and makes a sandwich and comes back to the blog ready to put out some non-blow-sky-high alternative…but, even with calming sandwich in hand, blowing the place to smithereens still commends itself.
Will we do such a thing? Doubtful – but if there is a time to do it, now would be it. The world would condemn us – and then breath a hearty sigh of relief. International politics would be roiled, but in 9 months there will be a new US President who can say that EEEEVIL Bush did that, and can’t we all get along? Meanwhile, wink wink/nudge nudge, we’ll do it again if we have to. This is the real world, good people – and the Iranian government is currently commanded by men who have demonstrated their willingness to do evil deeds. Men so capable should not be allowed to obtain that much destructive force – this is not a matter of what Iran might have done to us, or what we might have done to this; this is entirely based on the objective factors that long-range missiles can be very destructive and the Iranian government has proven itself inclined to be wicked. We can’t reach out and destroy all the evil in the world, but such evil as we can attack, we should do so.
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116 Responses to “Iranian Missile Site?”
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Stop quoting the president of Iran. He is not the leader of the military, he is not the one that commands all the power in Iran. So stop making it seem like he is the be all and end all of Iranian politics and foreign policy. He is mostly a domestic force for interrnal iranian affairs.
I can only laugh because you conservatives are panting and moaning about Iran, but you can’t do anything about it. So just continue yelling and screaming and watch Iran get its nuclear plant in Bushehr up and running this summer. I can’t wait to see Bush eat his words…..hahahahah…
sam,
Iran does not have a “natural right” to obtain nuclear weapons. Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
umm…so let me see if i get this straight….If you signed an agreement with someone not to climb a tree, then later decided that you wanted to climb the tree…..don’t you have the right to change your mind and do it anyway.
just because you signed the document, does that preclude you from ever climbing that tree?? NO
Iran did sign the NPT, but it has the right to obtain nuclear weapons, it has the right to change its mind, the right to change course and do whats best for its nation and its people. Please, don’t make international VOLUNTARY agreements something that countries have to abide by forever.
In the end, every country has the right to do whatever it deems best for its future and country.
Pakistan was a signatory to the NPT, so was India, yet they both obtained nuclear weapons and now they are still an active member of the world community. Just because you change your mind about an agreement you signed does NOT mean you are an outlaw country, it just means you changed your mind and want to change course.
Its that simple really.
sam,
It’s true that no one can arrest a country for violating an international treaty and they’re just voluntary agreements. However, the same justification could be employed to say that the United States has a “natural right” to bomb Iran’s missile site because Mark Noonan feels threatened by it.
God’s Will be done…
99. Casper | April 15th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
“How many times does Ahmadinejad have to say he wants to “wipe Israel off the map” before you get it?”
“Actually, he didn’t say that.”- Casper
Lol. You’ve been royally duped, Casper.
“Iran’s foreign minister later said the comment had been incorrectly translated from Farsi…”
The same lame excuse was used when Ahmadinejad said at Columbia University, that “Iran had no homosexuals.” Later, the Iranian government claimed that Ahmadinejad’s comment had been “incorrectly translated from Farsi.” You want to fall for that one, too?
Btw, Juan Cole is a hack without merit.
Reuters Editor: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be “wiped off the map”
1) Hitchens Demolishes Juan Cole - Slate
2) “UK – Exposing BBC experts: Juan Cole”
Ahmadinejad: Israel is a ‘Filthy Bacteria’ - Jerusalem Post (Feb 20, 2008)
“Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihiliation,” Ahmadinejad said. “The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm,” he said. – Jerusalem Post (Apr 14, 2006)
Ahmadinejad, “The Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan.” - Haaretz.com (Mar 1, 2007)
Ahmadinejad, “Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.” - Reuters (Dec 12, 2006)
Ahmadinejad, “The real cure for the conflict is elimination of the Zionist regime…” - AFP (Aug 3, 2006)
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