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Iran since 2003 has been conducting missile tests very publicly as a strategy of dissuading would be aggressors against Iran.
Of course SSM missiles in themselves are inconsequential for a fully pro-active war. SSM's have never won a war in themselves, and never will.
This was the case when the Nazis used the V1 and V2 rockets against the UK mainly.......resulting in the allies being even more indiscriminate in attacking German cities, and especially Dresden.
Predator drones with their missiles are rapidly helping the USA lose the war in Af/Pak in a variety of ways, even though the USA security is mesmerized by its use.
In Iran's case it would HELP MATTERS if Iran ceased to publicize its SSM missile tests in future.
SSM Missiles don't win battles or wars.
There is little point acquiring a false reputation and misplaced hope on a military system which poses no threat ultimately to anybody, least of all to Israel.
Obviously these poor quality North Korean designed missiles do not pose a credible threat to Europe, but as with the 'al-Qaeda" hologram is meant to regiment Westerners into America's corner.
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'Iran poses no missile threat to Europe'
Presstv.com
Iran has dismissed US claims that Washington's missile defense plan is designed to counter possible missile strikes from Tehran, saying the Islamic Republic poses no threat to any regional or far-off state.
“We think that independent governments and the world public opinion can best make a judgment as to which countries are the main targets of the missile shield plan and what objectives the US is pursuing [through such plans],” Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said at his weekly press conference on Tuesday.
“Our country's military might is aimed at defending our territorial integrity and supporting regional peace and stability, and it poses no threat to regional countries or distant countries,” he added.
The US has been insisting on deploying a missile system in Eastern Europe near the Russian border to allegedly counter possible missile threats from Iran and North Korea against Europe.
The Russian president's special envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, has rejected claims spearheaded by the United States that Iran is a military threat to Europe.
In a television interview in June, the Kremlin's ambassador to NATO described the claim as a provocative myth and stated that Moscow would never identify Iran as a missile threat.
Rogozin also questioned the motives behind the United States' proposal to establish an anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe.
Russia has long opposed the disputed plan, arguing that the would-be missile system in its "back yard” is not to secure Washington's European allies but is effectively aimed at Russia.
Moscow has called for shared control of any anti-missile shield, saying the aim of the Eastern European system is to encircle Russia, but Washington refuses to share the responsibility for protecting NATO member states with any third party.
NATO favors two separate but coordinated missile defense systems that would be comprised of NATO and Russian systems.
However, Moscow insists on a European system together with the alliance, with joint centers for detecting threats and a joint decision-making procedure.
Russia has warned that if NATO pushes ahead with its plans and no agreement is reached with Moscow, it will develop its own missile shield.
