Here's a list of countries with medium range ballistic missiles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-ra ... ic_missile
You may notice a pattern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-ra ... ic_missile
You may notice a pattern.
When they have missiles that can reach another of the 5 plus 1 countries and have missiles that can target those countries get back to me
.Colin Powell alluded to Israel having an arsenal of “200 nuclear weapons.” While this number appears to be an exaggeration, there is no doubt that Israel does have a small but powerful nuclear stockpile, spread out among its armed forces. Israeli nuclear weapons guard against everything from defeat in conventional warfare to serving to deter hostile states from launching nuclear, chemical and biological warfare attacks against the tiny country. Regardless, the goal is the same: to prevent the destruction of the Jewish state
They may have slowed their development of the nuclear weapons (by developing them in secret)
rayjay
When they have missiles that can reach another of the 5 plus 1 countries and have missiles that can target those countries get back to me
Here you go.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-t ... nd-europe/
Why does Israel have these nukes RayJay?
It also strikes me that when you say this ...
They may have slowed their development of the nuclear weapons (by developing them in secret)
You seem to reveal that you are being informed by Infowars or Brietbart.
You have no evidence that Iran is doing anything in secret. The IAEA inspectors have plenty of evidence that compliance is occurring.
That doesn't stop conspiracy theorists from making wild claims.
No you want to listen to Netanyahu, Huckabee, Cruz, Kristol, Adelson, et al., all of whom were wrong on the last high-stakes judgment call about US interests in the Middle East. The Iraq War..
Apparently Tillerson is willing to pursue negotiations. Which strikes me as wise.
Trump, being a another Great Leader, is busy undercutting his SOS.
It strikes me that the very same reasons Israel has nuclear weapons, seem to be the reasons NK has them.
First of all, one uncorroborated source from over 2 years ago doesn't represent evidence
"Tal Inbar, the head of space research at the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies in Herzliya, said that with their 2,500 km. range, the Soumar missile unveiled by the Islamic Republic on Sunday "entails a 25 percent increase in the range of Iran’s missiles, and if we consider the future possibility that the missiles would be deployed on ships and submarines, we see the ability to project their power worldwide.
Second, I don't read Infowars or Breitbart.
They may have slowed their development of the nuclear weapons (by developing them in secret
In fact, the protocols of IAEA inspections is at the core of the issues here.
Frankly, I think this is the crux of the problem with Ricky's way of thinking. The reasons are very different. Israel is a democracy whose nuclear weapons are meant to protect the survival of its people, whereas Iran and NK are terrible totalitarian regimes whose nuclear weapons (or eventual nuclear weapons in the case of Iran) are meant to protect the survival of their regimes.
It may be advanced good cop / bad cop.
rickyp wrote:On the other hand Iran has given up nuclear weapons.
Startling new evidence from German intelligence reports shows the Tehran regime is working to illegally obtain technology and know-how to advance its nuclear weapons and missile programs, despite the 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear program.
A report from the state of Hamburg holds that “there is no evidence of a complete about-face in Iran’s atomic polices in 2016” [after the Islamic Republic signed the JCPOA deal with Western powers in 2015, aimed at restricting Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief]. Iran sought missile carrier technology necessary for its rocket program.”
The report noted that the federal prosecutor filed criminal charges against three German citizens for violations of the export economic law due to the deliveries of 51 special valves to Iranian company that can be used for the Islamic Republic’s sanctioned Arak heavy water reactor. The installation, the intelligence officials wrote, “can be used to develop plutonium for nuclear weapons.” Iran pledged, under the JCPOA deal, to “dismantle the [Arak] facility,” the intelligence report states.
On the proliferation of atomic, biological and chemical weapons, a second report from Baden-Württemberg’s state intelligence agency report states: “Regardless of the number of national and international sanctions and embargoes, countries like Iran, Pakistan and North Korea are making efforts to optimize corresponding technology.”
The 181-page document outlines the technology Iran is seeking: “Products and scientific know-how for the field of developing weapons of mass destruction as well [as] missile technology.”
Iran’s illegal procurement and terrorist activities are cited 49 times in the report and range from cyberwarfare to espionage to support of the EU- and U.S.-classified terrorist organization Hezbollah.
The Baden-Württemberg report provides detail on Iran’s development of ballistic missiles with the aid of a Chinese front company. A Chinese import-export business approached a company in the southern German state that manufactures “complex metal producing machines” to buy equipment.
Berlin’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control requested an end-use receipt for the Iranian purchase. The intelligence agency informed the engineering company that the merchandise was set to be unlawfully diverted to Iran. “This case shows that so-called indirect-deliveries across third countries is still Iran’s procurement strategy,” wrote the intelligence officials.
rickyp wrote:Or good cop, idiot cop.
If thats the point. Then where's the evidence that the IAEA is somehow failing?
If it were, then we should all be worried. However there is nothing of the kind presented by those who like to claim the Iranian deal is bad.
. The IAEA is not allowed access to military sites
The IAEA has the authority to request access to facilities in Iran, including military ones, if there are new and credible indications of banned nuclear activities there, according to officials from the agency and signatories to the deal.
But they said Washington has not provided such indications to back up its pressure on the IAEA to make such a request.
“We’re not going to visit a military site like Parchin just to send a political signal,” an IAEA official said, mentioning a military site often cited by opponents of the deal including Iran’s arch-adversary Israel and many U.S. Republicans. The deal was struck under Trump’s Democratic predecessor Barack Obama.
rayjay
. The IAEA is not allowed access to military sites
Not true.
The IAEA has the authority to request access to facilities in Iran, including military ones, if there are new and credible indications of banned nuclear activities there, according to officials from the agency and signatories to the deal.
Do you realize that "authority to request access" is not the same as "allowed access"?