Iran has missile that can hit Europe

Reuters:

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that Iran has the ability to launch a ballistic missile capable of hitting sections of eastern and southern Europe.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency, told reporters he believes Iran now has a missile with a range of 1,250 miles, but he declined to say whether the weapon has been test-fired.

Iran said last week it conducted two missile tests involving a number of weapons including what Iranian state television called a "new" Shahab-3 missile, a medium-range missile that could be used to strike Israel.

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Older versions of the Shahab-3 have a 800-mile (1,300-km) range. But a new extended version is believed to have a range of up to 1,250 miles, making it capable of hitting targets as far away as Greece, Serbia, Romania and Belarus.

Iran is also developing a solid-fuel missile known as the Ashura with a range of 1,250 miles, according to the Pentagon.

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The Russians who are paranoid about the missile defense system claimed last week that Iran had no such missiles. There is little doubt in my mind that they at a minimum have ambitions that include such missiles if they do not already have them. In fact their ambitions probably include missiles of even greater range.

I have also posted on Iran's plan to build a $200 million dam in Nicaragua that would be completed in the next four years. If they placed one of these missiles there they would be in range of the southern US and places like Houston and New Orleans.