Iran missile said to pose Europe threat

Reuters ^ | August 21, 2009 | By Jim Wolf

[IsraelBeach]

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) - Iran could have the ability to strike most of Europe with a ballistic missile within three or four years if it made an all-out push, the former head of Israel's missile defense program said. If correct, the Iran missile timeline cited by Uzi Rubin, a leading authority on Iran's program, puts a fresh note of urgency into a diplomatically thorny debate over building a multibillion-dollar anti-missile shield in Europe.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

[rightwingcrazy]

No worries; just genuflect deeply and often.

[myknowledge]

[jwparkerjr]

Iran, Iran, Iran. Over and over we hear that name used in conjunction with anything and everything to do with evil. If it were up to me I would serve notice on them that they have X number of days to clean up their act or we'll do whatever it takes to do it for them. It would be great if the dissidents, the ‘moderate’ Iranians, who supposedly long to be rid of the mullahs and live it up Western style would rise up and take care of the situation, but I don't think we can sit around much longer waiting for that to happen.

And our leader, The One, certainly did nothing to encourage that solution to a very serious problem. In fact, he all but took the side of the bad guys in offering no support to the dissidents.

As usual, we will fiddle-fart around and waste the time when something comparatively easy could solve the problem and find ourselves having to resort to very harsh measures in the end.

Sir Winston Churchill addresses our current situation in Iran well over half a century ago when he observed:

“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

Sure looks to me like we're approaching that point with regard to Iran, not to mention the situation with our own President and his intentions.

[G8 Diplomat]

The Ashura-2 missile has a range of 1900 miles, and they’re working on upgrading it to 3000 miles. That could hit Europe with ease.

Shihab-3 has a range of ~1200 miles.

Sejil-2 (based off of Pakistan’s Shahin II) has a range of 1240 miles.

[SunkenCiv]

within three or four years if it made an all-out push

"So why should this concern Americans, particularly during Ramadan?"

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

This is why we need a missile defense system in Europe.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

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