According the CNN, it is confirmed by the Pentagon: Iran successfully launched an orbital satellite.<\/p>\n
This is a tremendous accomplishment for a nation that exists in economic isolation.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, it is a cause for tremendous concern: the missile belongs to a nation that has been openly advocating the destruction of Israel, and is likely in the advanced stages of a nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n
I guess what it boils down to is two questions: 1) Are the ayatollahs crazy enough to try to nuke Israel or lob an ICBM over the Atlantic? 2) Are other parties worried enough to start a major war by launching a preemptive strike against Iran?<\/p>\n
If the answer is a yes to either of these questions, lots of people will die and lots of unpleasant things will happen to lots of other people.<\/p>\n According the CNN, it is confirmed by the Pentagon: Iran successfully launched an orbital satellite. This is a tremendous accomplishment for a nation that exists in economic isolation. On the other hand, it is a cause for tremendous concern: the missile belongs to a nation that has been openly advocating the destruction of Israel, and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}