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Attempting to raise awareness about the problems a nuclear armed Iran would pose to the West, Israel has announced Tehran will likely have a missile able to strike the East Coast of the U.S. inside of three years.
Jeffrey
Heller at Reuters reports that current estimates put Iran's
farthest reaching missile at about 1,500 miles, far short of hitting the U.S.,
but well within range of its "arch-enemy
Israel."
Israeli Finance Minister Yuval
Steinitz announced his assessment on Iran's missile program during an interview
with CNBC and it echoes a
2010 Department of Defense report that also says Iran may have a U.S. range
missile by 2015.
Steinitz said "They (the Iranians) are working now and investing a lot
of billions of dollars in order to develop intercontinental ballistic
missiles."He continued, "And we estimate that in two to three years they will have the first intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the east coast of America. So their aim is to put a direct nuclear ballistic threat ... to Europe and to the United States of America,"
Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe
Yaalon said Iran was working on this long-range missile at the military base
that was rocked
by an explosion in November 2011.
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