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Iranian ‘Missiles’


July 10th, 2008 · Iran, Israel and the Middle East, World Affairs

TEL AVIV — I’m not ter­ri­bly wor­ried about Iran nuk­ing Israel. Although the Iran­ian regime is fun­da­men­tal­ist Shia one that might be hop­ing for an apoc­a­lypse that will bring the so-called Hid­den Imam, I still think that no coun­try is that suicidal.

Still, I do worry about hun­dreds of Iran­ian mis­siles rain­ing down on Israel and wreak­ing absolute havoc. Iran has report­edly tested a new type that can reach here. (The BBC cov­ered a prior test in the above YouTube clip. How­ever, there may be more to the story than meets the eye — as in, the pho­tos of the most recent test released by the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment may be fake, cour­tesy of Pho­to­shop.) It’s com­fort­ing that the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment can be this inept.