Iran has shown their response to Obama’s economic sanctions imposed as another consequence of the NDAA. Although Iran claims 125 miles is long-range, Israel is 625 miles from Iran. So any credible threat posed by Iran at this time would have to come from a naval launch of their missiles. No one seems to be concerned with the ability of Iran to launch a missile bearing an EMP nuclear bomb off any coast in the world. At least not publicly.
David DeGerolamo
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Iran test-fires missiles in Gulf exercise
Iran said on Monday it had successfully test-fired what it described as two long-range missiles, flexing its military muscle in the face of mounting Western pressure over its nuclear program.
The announcement came at the climax of 10 days of naval exercises in the Gulf, during which Tehran has warned it could shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of world oil is shipped, if sanctions were imposed on its crude exports.
Analysts say Iran’s increasingly strident rhetoric, which has pushed oil prices higher, is aimed at sending a message to the West that it should think twice about the economic cost of putting further pressure on Tehran.
“We have successfully test-fired long-range shore-to-sea and surface-to-surface missiles, called Qader (Capable) and Nour (Light) today,” Deputy Navy Commander Mahmoud Mousavi told state television.
Despite his use of the term ‘long-range’, the semi-official Fars news agency said the Qader’s range was only 200 km (125 miles), and no figure was given for the Nour.
Iran is about 225 km (140 miles) at its nearest point from Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, and about 1,000 km (625 miles) from Israel. Its longest-range missile, the Sajjil-2, has a range of up to 2,400 km (1,500 miles).
