What is a Shahab-5? Why do you expect it to have greater than a 7x
improvement on range over the Shahab-3?


NOYB wrote:
Because it will probably be an ICBM:

http://www.acq.osd.mil/mda/mdalink/bcmt/mrbm_irbm_3.htm


You should have looked a little further in the same web site

http://www.acq.osd.mil/mda/mdalink/bcmt/mrbm_irbm_5.htm

Note that nobody, not China, not India (who have both been building
missiles for a long time) have an ICBM with a range over 2,000 miles. It
is 6,000 miles from Iran to the closest point of the U.S.

You know why they call it rocket science?

Lemme 'splain it to you in simple words... the Iranians are not going to
improve their rockets that much any time soon... think decades.

Now, let's talk about a realistic threat scenario instead... smuggling a
dirty bomb (conventional explosives packed into nuclear material) into
the U.S. and setting it off. But hey, you know, that would be really
tricky to defend against, so I can see why the Bushies want to chase pie
in the sky boogey men instead.

DSK