Iran Plans To Nuke Europe, US - Sanctions UrgedBy Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Jerusalem ----- February 28, 2007 .... An Israel security official told the Israel News Agency that the recent launch of a missile from Iran into space illustrated a direct threat to both Europe's and US national security.

On February 25, Iran launched a missile reaching space. "Iran has successfully launched its first space missile made by Iranian scientists," the head of Iran's aerospace research center, Mohsen Bahrami, was quoted as saying. On Saturday, Iran Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said Iran was planning to build a satellite and launcher.

"Iran has no plans to land a man on the moon," Col. Adam an Israeli security source told the INA. "The same technology is used to build intercontinental ballistic missiles. This Iran space launch is not a threat to Israel. The Iranians need not reach a space orbit to attack Israel, but such a high orbit would be needed to deliver a nuclear payload into Europe or the US."

same article wrote:"Iran is no different than Nazi Germany", the MFA source said. "They too built up an army, resources and created the V-2." The V-2 was the first man-made object launched into space, during test flights that reached an altitude of 189 km (117 miles) in 1944. "While Germany was putting the finishing touches to the V-2 which was eventually used against Britain, the world stood by wanting to talk. Now we have Iran repeating history, declaring to "wipe Israel off the map" while planting bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, one which nearly killed US Vice President Cherney during his visit there a few days ago."

galanter wrote:Good, I'll pay you back in kind.

Do you realize how implausible it is to imply that Iran is developing spacecraft-class missiles to deliver conventional explosives?

galanter wrote:Israel uses nuclear weapons in the same way the US does...as part of a mutually-assured-destruction deterrence system. Such a system depends on the assumption that no player is willing to commit suicide.

The Iranian government, on the other hand, is in the active business of providing weaponry to those who make a virtue of suicide attacks. They can't be trusted with nuclear weapons because of their current and recent past actions and statements.