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Iran's missile-rattling provides one more reminder-if any wereneeded-that the United States and its allies need to cooperate moreeffectively to contain Iran's rising power, put a higher priorityon missile defense, and prevent Iran from acquiring nuclearweapons.
Takes on the world. why launch these missiles right now? >> first there are a couple things. they want to express their disdispleasure with the annual, south korea u.s. military exercises. jon: like sinking the warship. >> sinking the warship and other things. they're unhappy with president obama meet withing leaders of south korea and japan. they have to test these things because they sell them. if you scrape the paint of iran shahab 3 missile it's a from north korea. they sold the things to pakistan. they need to show their customers that these things work. jon: they have nuclear weapons and...
Assad is probably used at least twice already have in mortar, artillery delivered scud missiles. if you want to go after the delivery systems and stockpile, you'd have to take down the sa-17 anti-aircraft defense. items not a realistic military option. so i think now we're trying to find ways to back off that challenge. >> general, what do you make of the reports of the 110 missiles? >> the number i'm using unclassified is israel is facing as many as 100,000 missiles from lebanon, from hamas and gaza strip, from the iranians shahab 3 missiles that can reach israel. it's a huge problem for them...
As a matter of fact the price went up today on the suggestion. the second audience is the international audience saying if you want to see our nuclear weapons, we want something for that. the third audience and probably for them the most important is their domestic audience. iranians are paying more for food, the iranians government wants to say to them we've got things under control. we've got things managed. we're going to feel a pinch but don't worry. that's the real threat to the iranians regime is the people go on the streets and have a arab spring of their own. >> you look at these pictu...
Test-fired as you know several ballistic missiles a couple days ago including a long range variety capable of hitting u.s. bases in the region not to mention israel. here is what we have right now in terms of u.s. forces in the middle east. we have more than 120,000 u.s. troops and civilians within range of the iran shahab-3 missile. u.s. fleet in bahrain responsible for military operations. 4500 u.s. military staff working that base and port alone. is other aegis defense system, captain, in the region is it take capable of taking out a shahab missile? >> yes. not only that but tac-3s which ar...