IRAN'S RABID ROCKET RACE
Iran's rabid rocket race
The mullahs put their missiles where their mouth is
By Stan Goodenough
April 2nd, 2006
A few months ago Iranian President "Adolph" Ahmadinejad vowed to wipe the State of Israel off the face of the earth. Simultaneously he denied that his Nazi hero had ever perpetrated the Holocaust.
Both before and since voicing that threat and that lie, Tehran has been forging ahead with its efforts to acquire nuclear know-how, while sending a single and consistent message to the international community:
“We will do what we want to do, and there is nothing that you can do about it.”
Two days ago this message was sent out again in the form of a fiery-tailed multi-warhead monster that was successfully test-fired at the start of Iran's latest round of war games.
Revolutionary Guards air force chief General Hussein Salami told Iranian TV the Fajr-3 missile:
"Can simultaneously hit several targets, has near stealth capabilities with a high maneuverability, pinpoint accuracy and radar avoidance features.”
It could even “avoid anti-missile missiles” like the IDF’s Arrow “and strike the target,” he said.
According to a report carried by the Associated Press Sunday, the test launch has "raised eyebrows among officials in Washington and Jerusalem."
The question is whether it can stir more than just that part of the body and get the said officials moving to effectively deal with this new and dangerous development. The joint US-Israel Arrow anti-missile missile project has cost a total of one billion dollars. Iran's boast about being able to avoid such defense systems comes just months after Israel began to actually deploy its Arrows.
Nor is the Fajr-3 the only missile whose performance the western-aiming Iranians is perfecting.
An article headlined "Iran's burgeoning missile arsenal" and published in the American Foreign Policy Council's Missile Defense Briefing Report (#199 of March 20, 2006) referenced a report from Middle East Newsline according to which Tehran is "assembling a new class of hybrid intermediate ballistic missiles" with a nuclear capability and a range of "up to 4,500 kilometers" which will "dramatically increase Iran's reach, bringing nearly every city in Western Europe within striking distance."
The missile is a combination Iranian Shihab-3 and a North Korean BM-25. An unnamed intelligence source was quoted as saying:
"The Iranians have achieved a major breakthrough in missile development with North Korean help that would allow Teheran to fire a nuclear missile toward Europe."
So dense is the smoke over Iran right now that a raging fire just has to be down there somewhere. All this is not mere bluffing.
Europe is clearly too scared to tackle this beast. Instead of saving their own necks by feeding Israel to Islam, and thereby securing them against an eventual Iranian strike, the EU's vascillating and appeasement approach has only played right into its enemy's hands.
Like Israel, Europe is being lined up for the kill.
The mullahs put their missiles where their mouth is
By Stan Goodenough
April 2nd, 2006
A few months ago Iranian President "Adolph" Ahmadinejad vowed to wipe the State of Israel off the face of the earth. Simultaneously he denied that his Nazi hero had ever perpetrated the Holocaust.
Both before and since voicing that threat and that lie, Tehran has been forging ahead with its efforts to acquire nuclear know-how, while sending a single and consistent message to the international community:
“We will do what we want to do, and there is nothing that you can do about it.”
Two days ago this message was sent out again in the form of a fiery-tailed multi-warhead monster that was successfully test-fired at the start of Iran's latest round of war games.
Revolutionary Guards air force chief General Hussein Salami told Iranian TV the Fajr-3 missile:
"Can simultaneously hit several targets, has near stealth capabilities with a high maneuverability, pinpoint accuracy and radar avoidance features.”
It could even “avoid anti-missile missiles” like the IDF’s Arrow “and strike the target,” he said.
According to a report carried by the Associated Press Sunday, the test launch has "raised eyebrows among officials in Washington and Jerusalem."
The question is whether it can stir more than just that part of the body and get the said officials moving to effectively deal with this new and dangerous development. The joint US-Israel Arrow anti-missile missile project has cost a total of one billion dollars. Iran's boast about being able to avoid such defense systems comes just months after Israel began to actually deploy its Arrows.
Nor is the Fajr-3 the only missile whose performance the western-aiming Iranians is perfecting.
An article headlined "Iran's burgeoning missile arsenal" and published in the American Foreign Policy Council's Missile Defense Briefing Report (#199 of March 20, 2006) referenced a report from Middle East Newsline according to which Tehran is "assembling a new class of hybrid intermediate ballistic missiles" with a nuclear capability and a range of "up to 4,500 kilometers" which will "dramatically increase Iran's reach, bringing nearly every city in Western Europe within striking distance."
The missile is a combination Iranian Shihab-3 and a North Korean BM-25. An unnamed intelligence source was quoted as saying:
"The Iranians have achieved a major breakthrough in missile development with North Korean help that would allow Teheran to fire a nuclear missile toward Europe."
So dense is the smoke over Iran right now that a raging fire just has to be down there somewhere. All this is not mere bluffing.
Europe is clearly too scared to tackle this beast. Instead of saving their own necks by feeding Israel to Islam, and thereby securing them against an eventual Iranian strike, the EU's vascillating and appeasement approach has only played right into its enemy's hands.
Like Israel, Europe is being lined up for the kill.
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