Jay Solomon has a couple of articles in the Wall Street Journal that show the quandary the U.S. is in with Iran. They tested medium range missiles with a range of 1200 miles (medium is a relative term in the Middle East where distances are short compared to ballistic missiles flying across an ocean) and the U.S. is trying to help them dispose of nuclear material they already have on hand by moving it over to Kazakhstan. We have to wonder what makes it safer there than in Iran, but that is another matter. This matter is one of trying to help a country comply with a nuclear agreement, when it clearly wants to develop a delivery mechanism that would make having a bomb more dangerous. [Iran, U.S. Seek Deal to Send Enriched Uranium to Kazakhstan (updated 8 Dec 2015) & Iran Test-fires Another Missile, U.S. Says (8 Dec 2015)]
The U.N. has not done much of anything about the missile testing which is a violation of resolutions on Iran, a good clue about how they might respond to violations of others. Fox News says this violates two United Nations Security Council resolutions and is an attempt to improve accuracy of the missiles.
With so many countries invested in a dubious agreement with Iran to delay the building of a bomb, it would be difficult to act against them without the approval of the Russians and Chinese. Good luck with that. Maybe the Russians could benefit from the knowledge that Moscow is almost in range of that newly tested missile.
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