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You need to keep it in context. OPB failed to mention that 2 weeks prior to Iran's conventional missile test on its own territory, that Israel conducted massive War Games involving over 100 airplane bombers flying over 1,400 km (the distance from Tel Aviv to Iran) in preparation for attacking Iran. A week ago the U.S. navy held war games in the Persian Gulf near Iran's border.
Do you really expect the Iranians to present the U.S. and Israel flowers after their provocative actions and statements. It would be foolish if the Iranians did not prepare themselves and the missile tests need to be seen in this context.

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To have an informed/educated discussion one needs the essential facts.

Fact #1: For the past 5 years Bush Co. and Israel have been militarily threatening Iran on a nearly daily basis (in of itself a high crime and violation of international law and terrorizing the Iranian populace)
Fact #2: Iran has not attacked or invaded another country in 270 years as opposed to Israel and the U.S.
Fact #3: Iran has signed the NPT (nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty) giving it the right to enrich uranium for energy and has undergone the most extensive inspection regime in history verifying no divergence of nuclear energy work towards any military use while Israel has never signed the NPT and has 300 nuclear weapons.
Fact#4: The NIE (16 independent US spy agencies) confirmed that Iran is NOT developing any nuclear weapons and Iran's highest religious/government authority has issued an edict banning the production, stockpiling, or use of nuclear weapons calling them immoral and illegal.
Fact#5: The G-8 just called for production of 1000 new nuclear power plants and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait signed contracts with France to develop nuclear energy. But the U.S. and Western European countries claim Iran "can't be trusted" to pursue nuclear energy technology while they supported Saddam and gave him chemical weapons in his murderous invasion of Iran in the 1980s.
Fact #6: Iran is not a military threat to the U.S. or Israel and the manufactured hype is causing oil prices to sky-rocket making Bush Co. laugh all the way to the bank while creating economic misery on all of us.
Fact#7: As opposed to the outrageously dangerous, propagating myth by the corporate/special interest media; Ahmadinejad never, ever, called for "Israel to be wiped off the Map" but called for regime change by saying:
"The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] from the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad)."

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Your opening paragraph is erroneous. Iran did not test fire "nuclear" missiles. It is a verifiable fact per 17 U.S. spy agencies that Iran does NOT have and is NOT developing nuclear weapons. It tested conventional missles last week and as a sovereign nation has every right to do so especially when it is being threatened on a daily basis from Israel and the Bush/Cheney mafia.

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