Peloni: While the nuclear program drew most of the attention regarding the threat from Iran, its ballistic missile program represents an existential threat of its own. Given this fact, it is important to recognize that this, in addition to Iran’s nuclear program, which must be addressed in dealing with the threat from Iran. Despite this fact, the US negotiations with Iran, ever destined for failure, have inexplicably never included any discussion regarding the missile development program, leaving it to Israel to deal with, as Fitzgerald explains below. Notably, the continued pursuit of developing missiles with an ever greater range, is not a threat targeting Israel, as its main target for this is actually America…
By Hugh Fitzgerald | Aug 23, 2025
Israel’s bombing on IRGC facilities in Tehran. (By Avash Media, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia)
Most of the coverage of both the Israeli and the American attacks on Iranian military targets last June focused on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, which was the most worrisome part of Iran’s preparations for a future assault on Israel. But in an interview with The Times, Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Oren Marmorstein, noted at that time that there was almost equal worry about Iran’s ballistic missile program, which even without nuclear warheads was presented a great threat to Israel, and to Western Europe as well, for the intercontinental missiles Iran was building could reach London. More on Iran’s ballistic missile threat to Israel can be found in this article from shortly after the attacks: “Iran was stockpiling missile arsenal that could reach Europe, FM spox. says,” Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2025:
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