True. This news is more scary than the Atom Bomb news. If we don't take on Iran right now we will live to regret it. Iran has the ability to build that Muslim empire they dream about, if left alone. These are perilous times for America.
And who will actually build this Muslim empire.
Iran has a lot of internal problems, there is a real threat of revolution from below and a real fear of civil war.
Iran is spending most of her military resources keeping her own people in line.
There is a brain and technocrat drain as more Iranians with the necessary skills needed to build a country leave. The country itself has a aging infrastructure close to collapse
During the Cold War there was a real threat from the USSR, but that country and system collapsed because dictatorships by there very nature are prone to self destruction.
Most ordinary Iranians time is taken up just trying to survive, rather than have a taste for foreign adventure
Building a satellite is something that the EE Dept of any major university can do. That means nothing. The important part is the rocket. If they have a rocket of their own that can launch a satellite, not just some rental from a real space-faring country, then they can claim the ICBM. The satellite could be a bag of rocks for all anybody cares.