Iran Has Missiles To Carry Nuclear Warheads

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-7-2006 | Con Coughlin

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I'm shocked!!!

[Starve The Beast]

Iran Has Missiles To Carry Nuclear Warheads

Yeah, but they only plan to use them for peaceful purposes like producing energy.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Makes you wonder what the hell we are waiting for?

[King Prout]

ping

[NCjim]

Last week, the United Nations Security Council gave Iran 30 days to freeze its uranium enrichment programme

And if they don't? Double secret probabation? I'm sure they're trembling in their boots over what the UN will do...

<./sarc>

[RightWhale]

This is a major breakthrough

A nose cone? Any Iranian with a hammer and a sheet of metal can beat a nose cone into some shape in an afternoon.

[NormsRevenge]

[marvlus]

"This is a major breakthrough for the Iranians," said a senior US official. "They have been trying to do this for years and now they have succeeded. It is a very disturbing development."

Really....?

[popdonnelly]

The nuclear warheads are coming.

Not to worry, the U.N will say they're multi-use missiles.

[steve86]

Iran is receiving assistance from teams of Russian and Chinese experts

That has to be a misstatement. Those nice countries are our trading partners in the new world order.

[NormsRevenge]

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/missile/shahab-3.htm

Shahab-1 thru Shahab-6 and IRIS info

[FairOpinion]

Here is a scenario, which is not as far fetched, as we would like it to be, in fact, given the insanity of the Mullahs it's more probable than not.



Iran could launch a nuclear missile against Israel, "to show the world they have them and are willing to use them", then make demands of the US, saying, that if the US is starting to prepare to attack them, they will launch their several other ones against Europe and the US.

NOW, what would we do?

Will the Dems take responsiblity, because the Mullah's would have never gotten into power in Iran, if it weren't for Jimmy Carter not supporting the Shah, and because we would have gone in BEFORE Iran got the nukes, except for the Dems having whipped up an anti-war sentiment.

[Mike Darancette]

Does Iran have a large enough supply of body bags?

[Billthedrill]

This was the program to watch, and now we know. Iran will definitely build a missile arsenal (BTW, anybody notice the similarity of the photo to the old ones in Red Square?) and so the question becomes whether the Europeans can talk themselves into the fond illusion that it doesn't really represent a threat after all, that they can take care of the threat with negotiation. I'm not exaggerating, either - they actually managed to do this during the Cold War, and were it not for Reagan's stubborness the Pershings would never have been placed there.

Another interesting question will be whether they can turn the Shahab-6 into a true ICBM. If they can do that they can threaten New York and Washington D.C. as well as Paris and Berlin. That sort of development has taken a decade or so in the past but with Chinese and Russian help it might be considerably quicker. At that point Cold War II is the optimistic scenario.

[familyop]

Iran is also working on its Shahab-6, said to have a range of 3,500 miles. If we let them, sooner or later, they'll buy and install what they're after.

[Southack]

"A nose cone? Any Iranian with a hammer and a sheet of metal can beat a nose cone into some shape in an afternoon."

Yes, but that would cause...ahem...delivery problems.

Nuclear weapons aren't like conventional explosives. For one thing, the radiation *from* the nuclear warhead can...mmmm...interfere with volatile rocket fuels...electronics...etc.

For another thing, vibrations from the rocket can crack the hyper-brittle heavy metals that comprise the physics package...and such vibrations can also interfere with the precise shapes involved.

Rocket-fuel fumes can likewise be problematic if they reach any of several nuclear weapon components.

These are non-trivial technical hurdles.

[blam]

A pre-emptive strike is the only solution even with the terrorist aftermath.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Iran is crazy.

They are a THREAT.

[sheik yerbouty]

That's the problem with these mullahs. No dong..