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mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 02:28 PM Feb 2017

Iran pulls missile from launchpad after apparent prep for launch, US officials say

Iran removed a powerful missile from a launchpad east of Tehran within the past few days, Fox News has learned, as U.S. and Iranian officials continued trading public barbs about the Islamic Republic's missile tests and nuclear ambitions.

IRAN, 'ON NOTICE' BY UNITED STATES, LAUNCHES MISSILES IN EXERCISE

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Satellite image from ImageSat International.
The Pentagon is concerned because Safir missiles use the same components as those needed for an intercontinental ballistic missile. Iran’s ballistic program has “expanded dramatically” in the past 10 years, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News.

New satellite imagery from Feb. 3, obtained exclusively by Fox News from ImageSat International and verified by U.S. officials, showed Iran preparing a Safir for launch. That missile is the type Iran has previously used to put a satellite into space.

On Jan. 29, Iran launched a new type of medium-range ballistic missile prompting an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Jan. 31. A day later the White House issued a strongly worded statement from National Security Adviser Mike Flynn putting Iran "on notice." President Trump tweeted a similar statement soon after.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/07/exclusive-iran-pulls-missile-from-launch-pad-after-apparent-prep-for-launch-u-s-officials-say.html

This Sounds like some of Bannons Propaganda NOT REAL NEWS?

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Iran pulls missile from launchpad after apparent prep for launch, US officials say (Original Post) mitty14u2 Feb 2017 OP
it's fox shit. spanone Feb 2017 #1
Soon they will start Boogeyman Alerts/Color Code fear Chart mitty14u2 Feb 2017 #2

mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
2. Soon they will start Boogeyman Alerts/Color Code fear Chart
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 02:36 PM
Feb 2017

U.S. to Drop Color-Coded Terror Alerts

The color-coded threat levels were doomed to fail because “they don’t tell people what they can do — they just make people afraid,” said Bruce Schneier, an author on security issues. He said the system was “a relic of our panic after 9/11” that “never served any security purpose.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/us/25colors.html

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