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Why Iran won’t cut back on its missile program
Reuters
Published: 15.04.18, 23:52
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1. Yeah right - Iran is the victim
MadDad ,   Johannesburg   (04.16.18)
This rabid bunch of religious fanatics hell bent on spreading its religious doctrines throughout the Middle East is the aggressor and must be stopped at all costs
2. Tiny "Jewish State" will not exist at center of Muslim world
Steve Benassi ,   Duluth, Minnesota   (04.16.18)
Muslims now outnumber Jews from river to sea.
3. If only Iran would be threatened, it would behave civilized
Steve Benassi ,   Minneapolis USA   (04.16.18)
What a bunch of nonsense!
4. Author ignores the most important motivation in Iran
Steve Benassi ,   Minneapolis USA   (04.16.18)
The fatalistic belief in the return of the Mehdi is the basis of everything Iran does today.

Their missile program is very flawed.

The 6 cruise missiles Iran launched against ISIS last year never reached the target and failed inside Iran itself
5. Because of this
Avi L.   (04.16.18)
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ6ZHTbgEtRd-Y0Wdtapy6NBdELYNWbfbuDpMiOoEE3_o12Pc_RdA
6. or this reason
Avi L.   (04.16.18)


http://www.capmag.com/images2y346y/comics/cf/cf_north_korea_nukes_Duplomacy-X.gif

just change communist with islamist
7. IRAN IS RIGHT
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED HONESTY   (04.16.18)
Why should Iran weaken itself so that it can be pushed around by western powers? the only sad thing is the iranian hatred towards Israel .
8. Her parents fled Iran,but she "sees the light" and loves Aya
ab   (04.16.18)
-tollahs.
Like the second generation of Muslim migrants to Europe-Islamists
9. Iran has delusions of dominance, like Hitler
Chaim ,   Israel   (04.16.18)
It is not often that one hears words of truth from Saudi officials, but the Saudi prince who noted "Iran's leaders make Hitler look good" is on target. Iran has delusions of military dominance and grandeur, like Hitler. That is the obvious reason Iran pursues nuclear bombs and builds missiles. WW II and the Holocaust happened because nobody confronted Hitler till it was too late. We must not make the same mistake with Iran.

10. Iran is fanatic and greedy
C   (04.16.18)
11. great explanation about missiles. So why is Iran in Syria?
Rafi ,   US   (04.16.18)
and involved with Lebanon & Yemen? Are these defensive measures as well?
12. ... and you need a Ph.D to know this?
Avi L.   (04.17.18)
More the time passes, more it is evident the king is naked.

They can get a super weapon and they go for it.

End of story.
13. Why Israel may need to use an EMP on Iran
Chaim ,   Israel   (04.17.18)
British journalist Melanie Philips recently published an account of a fellow journalist who met Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei. Making small talk, the journalist asked Khamenei what he did upon waking each day. Khamenei replied that he "prayed for the destruction of Israel".

This is what Israel is dealing with. We have Iranian leaders who constantly threaten Israel with genocide and build weapons to make it happen.

Israel is like a citizen threatened with murder by a mad man who is reaching for a gun...The day is fast approaching when Israel will need to detonate a EMP (electro magnetic pulse) over Iran and send it back to the Stone Age. In fact, we may have reached that day.
14. Absolute power corrupts absolutely
lal ram ,   Wolverhampton, UK   (05.01.18)
The mullahs are worse than the Nazis, during ww2 the Muslim leader met Hitler and asked him to exterminate the Jews, he had a one track mind, you cannot co-exist with tyrants and people like that, this kind mentality can only he defeated by showing position of strength, like the great israeli general Moshe dayan , He wrote eye for two eyes. He wrote this in his bible. These radical mullahs have so much hatred in their hearts for Israel and the west, they will not listen to reason and common sense. Only the Almighty G-d of Israel can deal with see tyrants.
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