Iran Can Target Missiles at US and Europe

Iran Can Target Missiles at US and Europe

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Iran may have a long range missile capable of striking the United States and Europe in less than eight years, a senior State Department official said Thursday.

John Rood, the assistant secretary of state for international security and non proliferation, said the weapon could be wholly obtained from North Korea, which had provided Iran ballistic missiles previously.

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The American intelligence community has estimated that Tehran, which has defied UN sanctions to pursue a sensitive nuclear program, could develop long-range missiles capable of reaching all of Europe and the United States before 2015 if it chooses to do so, he said.

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I thought they already had a nuclear-capable missile able to reach Europe.

Something to reach the U.S. is still a long way off I think though. Of course they could deliver it via boat or something.

Well.. if they are only able to target Europe/US this means that they are not able to launch and reach distances that far away, right? ;]

"Weweweweweapons of mass dededededestruction!"
Does that possibly ring a bell?
"Would, could, might, may" .. Assumptions over assumptions.

Misleading propaganda and polemics. That's all.

Very worrisome indeed.

Especially, coming from a country who hates the US, with all its being.

I really don’t think they’ll hesitate to use them on us if they fill were over stepping our bounds.

We sure are making a lot of enemies.

Originally posted by Shar


Especially, coming from a country who hates the US, with all its being.

Actually, many Iranians are friendly to the US. It's their religious leaders that are leading the anti American movements.
But rest assured, if we bomb Iran, the once friendlies will turn into our enemies.

And yes we are making a lot of enemies.

Originally posted by djohnsto77
I thought they already had a nuclear-capable missile able to reach Europe.

Something to reach the U.S. is still a long way off I think though. Of course they could deliver it via boat or something.

Currently, they can only strike the Balkans, Greece, that sort of area, if they chose too.

Iran Can Target Missiles at US and Europe

Ok, so we know we were duped about Iraq's so-called 45min WMDs that could strike the UK etc. Why are people still buying into this bs?

Originally posted by john_bmth
Ok, so we know we were duped about Iraq's so-called 45min WMDs that could strike the UK etc. Why are people still buying into this bs?

To be honest, the title of the thread is misleading. Iran CANNOT target the bulk of Europe or the US, but in the futire they MIGHT be able too.

Thats like saying that Afghanistan can go to the moon... They can't, but you never know in the future....

It is widely suspected that Iran can Currently hit targets as far away as Rome, Italy...and I'm sure you'll agree that if they ever launched against rome they would immediately be detroyed by the collected forces of all of Europe and America. It would be the worst thing they could do because it would unify the west unlike any time prior in history.

MISS LEADING TITLE!!!!!

It's true and even if they were intercepted they could get ally in North Korea and hit at least Alaska and Hawaii (3700 miles range are possible). But that would be then quickly answered from Israel and US, so best would be to get Russia and China on their side and start World War 3.

Originally posted by stumason

To be honest, the title of the thread is misleading. Iran CANNOT target the bulk of Europe or the US, but in the futire they MIGHT be able too.

Great Minds think alike the very first pargraph starts out

"Iran

may

have a long range missile capable"

What a differance one little word makes

In fact best solution for peace would be if Iran targets all missiles towards Israel and US and EU. But in reality all you see on TV is just lies and innocent people suffer at the end. So if you want peace you need to kill liars.

Originally posted by stumason
Currently, they can only strike the Balkans, Greece, that sort of area, if they chose too.

I've heard estimates as far as Paris.

Originally posted by djohnsto77

Originally posted by stumason
Currently, they can only strike the Balkans, Greece, that sort of area, if they chose too.

I've heard estimates as far as Paris.

Hmm, I don't think thats quite right, unless people have seriously underestimated the range of the Shahaab missiles..

Shahab-4 missiles have a range of 1,200 miles. Not quite far enough for Paris. In fact, not quite far enough for the Med Sea I believe...


EDIT: Just read that for the 3-stage Shahab 4, if you strip the warhead down to under 300 Kg, you can get 1,800 miles out of it... Still not quite Paris though.

[edit on 4/5/07 by stumason]

Originally posted by stumason

Originally posted by djohnsto77
I thought they already had a nuclear-capable missile able to reach Europe.

Something to reach the U.S. is still a long way off I think though. Of course they could deliver it via boat or something.

Currently, they can only strike the Balkans, Greece, that sort of area, if they chose too.

And russia, which has suicidally helped them with the technology to do so because it tweaked the U.S. Brilliant strategic move there, mr. putin.

Barely, but yes, they could strike the extrem south of Russia in the Caucusus.. But I doubt the Russians would care seeing as they are bombing the crap out of that area anyway

More CIA intelligence propaganda intended to gain public support of another warfront. Just like Iraq with the WMDs and chemical weapons and long range missles systems Capable of reaching US soil. they werent there. Its kills me to watch so many people jump on the bandwagon here. 8 years is a pretty large window of speculation ontop of the misinformation coming from the CIA, Im not playing ball with this one............

[edit on 4-5-2007 by imeddieone4202003]

Do I detect a note of worry or anger by some of our US members at the thought of their nation being targetted by Iranian missiles?

Strikes me as ironic because there have been so many words spoken here on the boards and in the US media and even by the President himself about how Iran should be pre-emptively struck, invaded, bombed back to the stone-age, nuked, etc.

Originally posted by virtuexru
The American intelligence community has estimated that Tehran, which has defied UN sanctions to pursue a sensitive nuclear program

So it's for the US to defy the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and develop 'Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator' munitions, but not anyone else?

What's wrong? Don't like the shoe being on the other foot?