Iran Tests Ballistic Missile

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But I thought the big bad UN and EU was doing all it can to stop Iran?

IRAN secretly tested a new surface-to-surface missile (SSM) on January 17, seeking to establish the measurements needed for long-range missiles, the German daily Die Welt reported in its issue to appear today.
The test, conducted by members of the Revolutionary Guard led by Yahya Rahim Safavi, was successful, according to Western diplomats cited by the newspaper, which did not indicate the location where the test took place.

On January 28, Safavi said that Iran would use its ballistic missiles if it was attacked.

“Iran has a ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres,” he said on Iranian public television.

“We do not intend to attack any country, but if we are attacked, we are capable of effectively responding. Our position is defensive.”

Mr Safavi was referring to the Shahab-3 missiles that Iran possesses which can reach Israel and US bases in the Middle East.

Come on world, sick the UN at em’. That will have those rascally Iranians shaking in their boots.

The original article can be found here. Translated by Babelfish produced the following:

On 17 January the Iranian guidance let a secret rocket test accomplish. That comes out from information of western secret service circles, which were conveyed to the WORLD. Therefore Iran tested a surface-to-surface rocket (Surface ton Surface Missile, SSM). The SSM is able to carry as far as three nuclear warheads. A goal of the test is to have been it to make in the flight of the langstreckenrakete different electronic and aerodynamic measurements. The test lay in the responsibility of a special team from 15 engineers of different fields, which are to be subordinated to the Iranian president directly. If one follows the secret service information, then are the firing of the rocket also several commanders of the Iranian revolutionary guard under the guidance Rahim Safavis as well as some leading coworkers of the Iranian aircraft industry to have pursued. The test flight of the SSM succeeded, how is to be experienced from diplomatic circles in Iran. Possibly that was the reason for it that Rahim Safavi explained on 28 January on the television, the country has now ballistic rockets with a range of 2000 kilometers.

The development of such booster rockets provides in the west for a long time for excitement. Rockets of this range result in a sense only if they are equipped with atomic warheads. J.S.

When will the world take this threat seriously?

Meanwhile Iran is puffing it’s chest out and telling the UN, stay away:

Javad Vaeidi, the deputy head of Iran’s National Security Council, said “there will be no way we can continue with the Russian proposal” if the Security Council becomes involved.
Mr Vaeidi acknowledged that referral seemed unavoidable, telling reporters: “This is an adopted draft. It means that the US and the EU-3 [Britain, France and Germany] are intending to kill two issues: first to stop diplomacy and second to kill the Russian proposal,” he said.

Iranian officials are due in Moscow on 16 February for talks on the Kremlin’s proposal to enrich uranium for Iran’s nuclear programme on Russian soil. The offer, backed by the United States and the EU, is intended to make it more difficult for Tehran to develop weapons. Iran has welcomed the proposal but says it needs work, leading to suspicions that it is stalling.

Mr Vaeidi also reiterated earlier threats that Iran will resume full-scale work on uranium enrichment and stop honouring an agreement giving IAEA inspectors broad powers to conduct short-notice inspections of his country’s nuclear programme if there is a referral to the Security Council.

Will the UN impose economic sanctions against Iran? Not with China sitting on the council that’s for sure:

China sees no need for sanctions at this stage to force Iran to comply with its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a senior Chinese diplomat said, according to AFP.

Chinese UN delegate Li Junhua said Beijing would join the consensus at the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency in Vienna to report Iran to the Security Council over its nuclear program, but opposes the use of sanctions.

“This is our traditional position. We never favor sanctions against a country for a political issue,” said Li, the number three at the Chinese UN mission, AFP added.

We all know that even if the rest of the council, by some miracle, all voted to impose sanctions on Iran that China (a developing country that needs oil desperately) will never agree to it. So the two options are

  1. Allow Iran to possess Nuclear weapons
  2. Attack Iran

I choose number 2.