Iran test-launches an Emad surface-to-surface ballistic missile, which they promise is strictly for research purposes and not at all for destroying the Great Satan or anything like that. Also: Death to America. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
While Iran raises the stakes, the Administration is going balls out and raising the issue at a meeting at the United-effing-Nations.
So take this, suckers:
The United States plans to raise Iran’s recent missile test in the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, U.N. diplomats said, after Washington declared that the launch had violated a U.N. ban on ballistic missile tests by Tehran.
Iran said this month it had tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, has said that the medium-range missile was capable of delivering a nuclear weapon.
U.N. diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States planned to raise the issue during a meeting of the 15-member Security Council.
Iranian officials and their $150,000,000,000 did not immediately respond to a request to comment for this story.
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