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Originally Posted by jaxie

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.