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Iran Seeks Image of Defiance With New Missile Tests

Iran test-fired its most advanced missiles today. The move demonstrated Iran's ability to strike targets as far away as Europe, and it increased tensions over its nuclear program. Analysts break down the details of the development......>>>>

JUDY WOODRUFF: Is it possible we're making too much of this, making too big a deal of this?

MICHAEL ELLEMAN: Of the missile tests themselves?

JUDY WOODRUFF: Yes.

MICHAEL ELLEMAN: Yes, I think we're making much more fuss over what I would call just ordinary developments.

KARIM SADJADPOUR: I would agree with that. I always look at the institution of the bazaar. And I say that, when you go into a carpet bazaar and you see a carpet you like, never show the merchant how much you like that carpet, because if he knows you're not going to leave the shop without the carpet, he can extract a very high price for it.

I think from -- from the Iranians' vantage point, they say, well, if the Americans feel so strongly about our nuclear program, then they should offer us the corresponding price. And I actually once posed this to an Iranian official. I said that, I don't think this nuclear pg was ever so important for Iran until it became so important to the United States. And he said that's absolutely right.....>>>

Iran's doing what any country, with the ability, would do when constantly being threatened, they're developing and testing defensive weapons. We and Israel do same and cheer on our positive results, then we actually continue the testing by engaging in war, Israel with the Palestinians and Lebanese, we in the present with Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, making sure the tested weapons and high tech toys do their job, Kill and Destroy!!

There's allot to say about Iran's human rights and more, but condemning them while threatening them and doing what we claim they will do, at the same time, is even more then hypocrisy, and nobody is listening!!

Iran won't do a First Strike against anyone, but watch out when any first bombs are dropped or another's missiles hit them!!

And they'll look like they already do to many, around the World, especially in that region and with occupation forces pretty much surrounding them, The Victims Of The Aggression Already Laid Forth In What This 21st Century started On!!