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7/16/2008 2:32 AM

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Yep, they'll say anything, ANYTHING, to get you all to believe:

U.S. says Iran has missile that could hit Europe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that Iran has the ability to launch a ballistic missile capable of hitting sections of eastern and southern Europe.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency, told reporters he believes Iran now has a missile with a range of 1,250 miles, but he declined to say whether the weapon has been test-fired.

Iran said last week it conducted two missile tests involving a number of weapons including what Iranian state television called a "new" Shahab-3 missile, a medium-range missile that could be used to strike Israel.

Tensions over Iran's missile arsenal and accusations from the United States and its allies that Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons have roiled international financial markets with fears of a possible military confrontation.

Iran denies it wants nuclear weapons and says its nuclear program is designed to produce electricity to increase its output of oil and natural gas.

Older versions of the Shahab-3 have a 800-mile (1,300-km) range. But a new extended version is believed to have a range of up to 1,250 miles, making it capable of hitting targets as far away as Greece, Serbia, Romania and Belarus.

Iran is also developing a solid-fuel missile known as the Ashura with a range of 1,250 miles, according to the Pentagon.

U.S. officials and independent missile experts have said last week's tests involved no new or enhanced technology, or even the latest generations of missiles known to be in Iran's arsenal.

Obering did not dispute those assertions in a briefing for Pentagon officials on Tuesday.

But his description of Iran's missile capability was stronger than what U.S. officials have said up to now.

"The Iranians themselves are describing ... a 2,000-km range missile launch," Obering said of last week's tests, adding that Iran also claimed to have such a missile in November.

"I believe, based on what I have seen, that they have the ability to do that and to continue to advance in the future, based on what I have seen so far from those (Iranian state media) reports and from the intelligence reports," he added.

"I won't go into detail as to what was fired when. That's something I think the intel community should answer," he said.

The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, which monitors major weapons threats to the United States and its allies, was more vague in its February 27 testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"Iran continues to develop and acquire ballistic missiles that can hit Israel and central Europe, including Iranian claims of an extended-range variant of the Shahab-3 and a new 2,000-km medium range ballistic missile called the Ashura," DIA director Army Lt. Gen. Michael Maples told the panel.

U.S. officials and analysts dismissed last week's missile tests as an angry Iranian response to recent military exercises including an Israeli air exercise in June that some have called a rehearsal for an attack on Iran.

The Bush administration has used concern about Iranian missiles to press forward with plans for a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, capable of protecting both Europe and the United States from attack.

Washington and the Czech Republic signed an agreement last week to place missile-tracking radar on Czech soil. U.S. officials are now hoping for a deal to station the system's interceptor missiles in Poland.

[link to news.yahoo.com]

malu

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7/16/2008 2:37 AM

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not if, but when there is nothing that can do at this point to avoid at least some strikes, if not war Pakistan is now in the same boat

Anonymous Coward
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7/16/2008 2:39 AM

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ano
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7/16/2008 4:34 AM

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well iran has supported palastines war against ISRAEL FOR YRS IRAN FUNDED HIZBA.LLAH OVERTHROW OF LEBANON MONTHS AGO AND NOW IRAN AND SYRIA DO PLAN POLITICAL VOICE IN LEBANON...HUH.HIZBALLAH WITH IRANS HELP FROM RUSSIA ARE PREPARING MISSILES N SANNINE REGION THE SOUTHERN MOST AREA OF LEBANON .I AM SURE THE MISSILES WILL BE DIRECTED AT ISRAEL...AND ARE DANGEROUS TO ISRAEL..IRAN DOES PLAN REGIONA.L LEADERSHIP AND WITH RUSSIA WEAPONS WELL WHO KNOWS WHAT ALL IRAN REA.LLY HAS AND IRAN HAS ALREADY SAID IT WILL UNLEASH TERROR WORLDWIDE; IF ITS NUCLEAR FACI.LITIES ARE ATTACKED...THAT THERE TELLS ME OF IRANS AIMS..BUT OF COURSE I AM JUST ONE PERSON..WILL IRAN TRY TO RULER OVER OPEC OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES NEXT ...AS IT HAS TRIED WITH TERROR TO DISRUPT IRAQ ......SCARY FOR SURE.....................DAMM IRAN REALLY IS ALL OVER THE BOARD..

Anonymous Coward
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7/16/2008 4:50 AM

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Quoting: ano 468900

blablabla bullshit!

Yes Iran is a strong military power, but it has not caused any threat to any country for over 3 centuries! Ofcourse it has a wicked regime and human righst in Iran are about as bad as the terror of the USA government and army, but that does not mean Iran does not have the right to defend itself after being terrorized by the illegal warcriminals in Washington for 8 years!
It is ridiculous that they would allow the warcriminals in the White House and the Zionist terror-regime to threat them and attack them and just sit back and do nothing.
This threat and this danger has solely been caused by the warmongers in the White House and Israeli government. Iran has every right to stand up against that.

Besides that Ahmedinedjad is a terrible man, the regime in Iran sucks big time and human rights have no value there - but that is still no justification to falsefy evidence of fake threats of nuclear weapons and attack a civilized country like this, purely to gain control and have access to their oilsupplies.

If the Zionists and USA terrorists will attack Iran I assure you they will both be burried.
Unbelievable that in 2008 there are still morons who believe the crap from the US government & Faux-News!

Anonymous Coward
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7/16/2008 4:54 AM

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PS the USA has always planned to attack Iran, for many many years. It woudl have nuked Iran last year if it had not been for teh patriots who stopped the 6 nukes that Cheney secretly tried to smuggle out of an AF base. They had to pay for their heroic action with their lives!
[link to www.globalresearch.ca]

It is ridiculous to suggest that Iran woudl attack Greece or Rumania. What on earth could they possibly target at that woudl be worthwhile in Greece or Rumania? Maybe some lost tourists on teh Acropolis? Or some secret concentrationcamp of the CIA in Bukarest?

This is clearly USA nonsense and propaganda and frankly its ridiculous. The time has come to confornt the warcriminals in the White House iwth their crimes and thousands of lies and get them imprisoned for the rest of their wicked lives!

NO WAR ON IRAN!!!!

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7/16/2008 4:55 AM

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*** WARNING ***

Official GLP retard

*** WARNING ***

Anonymous Coward
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7/16/2008 5:01 AM

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nope, that whole Iraq and Iran thing is over, the US is going to create a new kind of hell in Pakistan real soon.

Anonymous Coward
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7/16/2008 5:11 AM

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Anonymous Coward
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7/16/2008 5:13 AM

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nope, that whole Iraq and Iran thing is over, the US is going to create a new kind of hell in Pakistan real soon. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 465149 Soon the worm will turn....

Anonymous Coward
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7/16/2008 6:21 AM

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Ah right! - it's all an excuse to invade Iran then! er.... remind me again there - what is it that we gain by attacking Iran?

Anonymous Coward
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7/16/2008 6:36 AM

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Ah right! - it's all an excuse to invade Iran then!

er.... remind me again there - what is it that we gain by attacking Iran?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 469025

We take the pee-ons minds off the collapsing economy for a few minutes.

We get to steal a few more zillion dollars from the tax payers through my Halliburton war profiteering company.

AND, we get to kill a whole bunch of people. That's always fun. I wish I could could shoot them all in the face personally. But I don't want to risk getting shot myself.

Your Friend, Dick.

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