If you want to see the direction Iran is going with its missile program, you don’t have to look very far from Iran itself. The US press, some of our European allies, and lots of countries with no stake in anything Iran does, have decided the Iran nuclear deal should have stayed where it was even if it was a bad deal for everyone except Iran.
Look at Yemen. That little country is a proxy war for Iran and Saudi Arabia. It shows what Iran is doing with ballistic missiles, getting Yemen to pretend it has a domestic manufacturing capability for these things, when everyone knows they come from Iran. They were so bad at disguising the point of origin that parts were labeled with Iranian company logos. The Yemen “rebels” were firing those missiles at Saudi Arabia. One was intercepted over the capital last night. I said before that it might be better for everyone concerned if some missiles were fired Iran’s way instead of all of them coming the Saudi’s way. They would think twice about this kind of thing if some of those missiles landed in their cities. That would be much harder to do if Iran had nuclear weapons.
For those who think the Iran nuclear deal was such a great thing, I hope you look more closely at what the likely outcome will be if this kind of tactic is used more often. Iran has proxies in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and a number of North African countries. It will not be long before some of those countries will be launching the same kind of missiles at some of our best friends. They launch plenty of them now, particularly against Israel, so peace is not the objective here. This is not the kind of thing we want to spread around.
We can’t ignore Iran’s terror sponsorship, or its ambition for the use of longer range missiles to achieve its objectives. Trade with Iran is not that important. We have to stop this kind of aggression. It is too late when a missile contrail is arching over a city you live in. Even if you have some missile defenses like the Saudis, some of them get through.
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