From The Persia Desk
The BBC reports that Iran ‘test-fires medium-range missile’ in Gulf.
You have to read the article to discover that it was a surface-to-air missile, and this is a claim by the Iranians, who are known to have been a bit over-optimistic in their reporting on their military weapons program. For example, they don’t specify what their measure was for ‘successful’, which could have been: the missile didn’t destroy the launch vehicle and actually left the ground. Iranian reporting has the same level of credibility as the US missile defense program tests.
At CNN we have a Report: Iran builds, tests first nuclear rod.
My, they really are zipping along. Only about a decade to make their first reactor fuel rod. I would hope that someone took notes, or it will be several centuries before they can start their reactor. They seem to be having problems with their enrichment program, because they should be much further along than they obviously are.
