Iran Nuclear Watch,  Politics

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran – “Successfully Fires a High-Speed Underwater Missile”

ASSociated Press: Iran Calls Second Missile Test a Success

Iran announced its second major new missile test within days, saying Sunday it has successfully fired a high-speed underwater missile capable of destroying huge warships and submarines.

The tests came during war games that Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have been holding in the Gulf and the Arabian Sea since Friday at a time of increased tensions with the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program.

The Iranian-made underwater missile has a speed of 223 miles per hour, said Gen. Ali Fadavi, deputy head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Navy.

That would make it about three or four times faster than a torpedo and as fast as the world’s fastest known underwater missile, the Russian-made VA-111 Shkval, developed in 1995. It was not immediately known if the Iranian missile, which has not yet been named, was based on the Shkval.

“It has a very powerful warhead designed to hit big submarines. Even if enemy warship sensors identify the missile, no warship can escape from this missile because of its high speed,” Fadavi told state-run television.

It was not immediately clear whether the ship-fired missile can carry a nuclear warhead.

MORE “Winds of War” bloviations from Iran.

Does Iran and the Revolutionary Guard not understand that if a United States submarine or warship were attacked by Iran that United States nuclear arsenal would be unleashed against Iranian military installations – resulting in hundreds of thousands or millions of casualties?

The new weapon could raise concerns over Iran’s naval power in the Gulf, where during the war with Iraq in the 1980s Iranian forces attacked oil tankers from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, prompting a massive U.S. naval operation to protect them. The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet is based on the tiny Arab island nation of Bahrain in the Gulf.

Cmdr. Jeff Breslau of the 5th Fleet said no special measures were taken by U.S. forces based on Bahrain in reaction to the Iranian war games, even after the latest missile test.

“They can conduct excercises whenever they want and they frequently do, just as we do. We conduct excercises throughout this region,” he told The Associated Press by telephone.

Iran has inferior military forces and would be making a grave mistake to take on the United States and its allies militarily.

Stay tuned ……..

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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