[Ancesthntr]

See the Wikipedia entry on the Shahab 3 - one variant has a range of 1930 km, which is 1200 miles. So they could hit us.

This just became a Class A crisis.

Sorry for no link, but I am on my phone

[justlurking]

See the Wikipedia entry on the Shahab 3 - one variant has a range of 1930 km, which is 1200 miles.

This is what the Iranians claimed when they tested that variant. However, independent analysis of the video determined that it was no different than earlier variants, and would not have any additional range:

http://www.webcitation.org/5ZI026UJg

However, the Iranians are reportedly developing ballistic missiles with ranges up to 4,300 KM:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/missile/shahab-5.htm

[driftdiver]

Its not a crisis because our govt isn’t going to respond.

Time to build a bunker

[mojito]

A real president would invoke the Monroe Doctrine, and put a quick end to this “provocation.”

Of course, the boy king learned, when he read Howard Zinn, that the Monroe Doctrine was racist and colonialist.