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| Defiant Iran test-fires another missile days after US warning |
| 2017-02-09 |
| [IsraelTimes] Iran has reportedly test-fired another missile on Wednesday, just days after a series of warnings from the Trump administration that it was "on notice" for previous ballistic missile tests and that a military response to such actions was under consideration. According to a Fox News report, a US official said the test on Wednesday was of a short-range surface-to-air missile, called Mersad, which impacted 56-kilometer (35 miles) away. The test came on the same day US officials told Rooters that the White House was considering a proposal that could lead to naming Iran’s most powerful military and political institution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, as a terrorist organization. The proposal is reportedly one of many being weighed as part of an overall Iran policy review, amid a tougher line on Tehran since the Trump administration came into office. On Friday, Washington slapped sanctions on more than two dozen people and companies from the Persian Gulf to China, in response to Iran test-firing late last month a 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, as well as a home-made cruise missile with the same capabilities, acts which prompted an emergency UN Security Council session and an Israeli demand by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reimpose sanctions. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 I keep saying... launch the fircking "Rods from God". I am sure a Falcon Heavy could loft quite a few dispensers. If that requires muzzling the EPA and FAA do it. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-02-09 12:42 |