Iran tests ballistic missile which can carry multiple warheads
 

Weapon reportedly has a range capable of reaching Israel and Saudi Arabia
(CNN) Iran tested a new ballistic missile that is reportedly capable of carrying multiple warheads, the nation's state-run broadcaster announced Saturday.

Iran unveiled the ballistic missile Friday at a military parade in Tehran and successfully tested it the same day, Press TV reported. It said Iran released footage of the test-launch.

Called the Khorramshahr missile, the weapon has a range of 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) and can carry multiple warheads, according to Press TV.

The Khorramshahr missile has become smaller in size and more tactical and it will be operational in the near future," the broadcaster said.

The missile was launched from an unknown location.

With such a range, the missile would be easily capable of reaching Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Speaking during Friday's parade, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran would press ahead with strengthening its missile capabilities and military defenses, Press TV reported.





http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/23/middle...est/index.html

Maybe they could test it over N.Korean airspace, see how rocket man likes a taste of his own medicine.

Israel has been testing its own ballistic missiles since the late 80s. If you look up Jericho III you will see Israel's ballistic missiles will go a lot further than Irans ballistic missiles. Why is it okay for Israel to build and test their payloads and not Iran.

It's not ok for anyone to be testing them, but particularly in provocation to others. It should never be a case of excusing it because someone else is doing it. Not acceptable all-round and incredibly childish of Iran. They made an agreement and if they have rocket's ready to test they've clearly quietly not been sticking to it.

The have a deal regarding producing / acquiring nuclear materials and developing nuclear weapons. Ballistic missiles are not nuclear weapons. A nuclear warhead can be attached to a ballistic missile, but they're not the same thing, and there are plenty of non-nuclear applications of this sort of ballistic missile. So... they haven't broken any agreement, and it's straight up ridiculous for us to be parading around nuclear submarines / renewing Trident / being in bed with the largest military power on the planet (both in terms of current firepower and developmental tech) - the US - and then trying to insist that no one else should have a military or seek to develop their military capabilities.

Nuclear non-proliferation is an important goal but extending that to saying the "no one else is allowed to have ANY military tech comparable to ours" is sketchy at best.

At any rate, Trump has been going on about how he doesn't agree with the agreement, so maybe he'll wake up and realize, North Korea isn't going to believe he'll honor any agreement.

Absolutely TS!!!!

The most hypocritical thing about it is that the Country that's usually acting like they have the right to dictate who does and who doesn't get to have the same right's to possess nuclear weapons as they do, the USA, are still the only Country to have committed the ultimate act of Nuclear aggression by dropping Nuclear weapons on a densely populated civilian target......TWICE!!!!
Japan had all but surrendered by that point (the agreement was drawn up and awaiting the signatures) but the US were hellbent on using the 'opportunity' to test two different types of Atomic Bomb on ''live targets'', a plutonium implosion-type (known as 'Fat Man') bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and a uranium gun-type (known as 'Little Boy') bomb was dropped on Hiroshima resulting in at least 129,000 deaths!!!!
As well as seeing this as an opportunity to test the weapons in a 'Real-World' scenario the other main motivation as recognized by many leading scholars in the field was 'Atomic Diplomacy' in that the United States used nuclear weapons in order to intimidate the Soviet Union in the early stages of the Cold War.
And when you've got someone as ignorant and ill-informed as Trump playing at being the US President, a man who didn't (and probably still really doesn't) grasp the concept of Nuclear Armageddon the whole situation is made exponentially more dangerous. Hopefully, by this stage in his calamitous excuse for a 'Presidency', i'd like to believe that any wires to any dangerous buttons Trump may have access to have been well and truly disconnected. Who knows just how far he'd go to distract from his many rapidly escalating scandals.