US says Iran report has no impact on missile shield plans

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Friday that it was pushing ahead with a planned missile shield that has angered Russia even as a new US assessment downgraded the nuclear threat from Iran.

Washington has defended plans to build missile defense facilities in the Czech Republic and Poland as necessary to protect European allies from a potential missile strike from "rogue" states, especially Iran.

A new US intelligence community assessment on Iran's nuclear ambitions, however, found that the Islamic republic froze an atomic bomb program in 2003.

But the White House has insisted that the Islamic republic remains a danger, arguing that it could revive the nuclear weapons program anytime. And the Defense Department says Iran's conventional missiles are still a threat.



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[sakabatou]

1. Continue on like it was the 80s!

[SpiralHawk]

2. Commander AWOL: organ grinder for the uLTiMaTe crusade

for oil for profit for eternal glory in a dark echoing hall of eternity...

[sss1977]

3. Missile shields are an offensive weapon, not defensive.

As the Russians realized when Reagan first really pressed for a missile defense system, all it did was require the countermeasure of MIRVs. By pressing for a missle defense, all Reagan did was make Russia believe the US was preparing for a first strike and hoping to block a counter-attack with the shield. So they responsed by amping up production of nuclear warheads and making use of MIRVs so that a shield would be meaningless.

It's a completely retarded idea, and I can't believe a new idiot is still pressing for it. If you want to protect yourselves against nuclear missles, then fucking rid them from the planet.