Iran testing ICBM

Bill Gertz:

U.S. intelligence agencies recently detected Iran conducting a static ground test of a large rocket motor that could be used for a future intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), according to U.S. officials.

Disclosure of the recent rocket engine test comes as Congress is prodding the Obama administration to deploy a third ground-based missile defense interceptor base on the U.S. East Coast.

“This engine could be used for an ICBM,” said one official familiar with the intelligence reports of the test.
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We ignore their ambitions at our own peril.  Ironically most of the targets of these weapons would be cities full of liberals who oppose doing anything about Iran.