This image from Iranian Al-Alam TV shows what the station said was the test-firing of a new medium-range missile, Sejil-2, at an undisclosed location. AFP / GettyFrom Time Magazine:
Iran's latest missile test may have less to do with advancing its military capability than with getting a last word in on Monday's conversation between President Barack Obama and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, the weapon whose test-firing was announced Wednesday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the election campaign trail does not significantly extend the reach of others already in Iran's arsenal. Instead, it appears to have been a ballistic message, to Iranian voters as well as to the U.S. and its Mideast allies, that Iran isn't about to be intimidated into backing off its nuclear development, and that it has the means to retaliate against any military strikes.
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My Comment: A depressing but accurate assessment of current Iranian - U.S. relations, and Iran's nuclear program. The wild card in this nuclear face off is Israel. A part of me says that they will not attack .... another part of me tells me that they will go for broke, and attack Iran's more critical nuclear sites. From where I stand .... it can go either way.
I can only hope that President Obama and his team have the capability and foresight to make sure that we do not get to a point where confrontation is the inevitable outcome.
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