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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salami" data-source="post: 232099" data-attributes="member: 4822">The question that should be on all your lips is why we have not already went to war with Iran over this. I'll answer it for you. There are a couple reasons why we have no pursued a war with Iran. One is that it would be costly with their surface to air defense system. They also have a pretty advanced land to sea defense systems as well....good enough to threaten our most expensive assets at a rate that the USA finds unacceptable for the threat presented. The other reason is that they already know Iran presents no real threat to the USA themselves.What I worry about is some of that material getting into the hands of rebels and / or other state actors. That is more of a problem than Iran. One launch and IsRaEl would turn that nation into glass and they know it. The USA has already had to threaten to shoot down nuclear bombers heading to Iran more than once.</blockquote>