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CNN reports, "U.S. official raises Iran rocket fears; Tehran denies tests are illegal":
A U.S. official told CNN the current assessment is Iran could launch a three-stage rocket with a satellite on top "at any minute."
It would be Iran's first ever launch of this configuration, and like the North Korean test earlier this year, would give Iran further insights into intercontinental ballistic missile technology.
The assessment followed reports in Iran's state media that it had test-fired two ballistic missiles last Wednesday. The day before that, Iran conducted other missile tests that Washington suggested were in violation of a U.N. resolution adopted last year in the wake of an historic agreement by Tehran to curtail its nuclear program.
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U.S. Official: Iran Could Launch Satellite "At Any Minute"
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 16 2016, @06:13PM
Way to miss the point. You can push Iran all you want and whoops suddenly Saudi Arabia or Brazil are working on a bomb. It's like trying to push down paint bubbles. You push one down and another one pops up somewhere. Eventually you will spend all your resources trying to police the whole world and at the end of the day you won't be able to stop progress.
Why would they do that? Illegal development of nuclear weapons subjects them to penalties in your scenario. The obvious rebuttal here is that if you can make the cost of nuclear weapons greater than their advantages, then you prevent proliferation. And the whole world just isn't that big.