As talks continue in Vienna in a bid to resume the 2015 Iran nuclear deal abandoned by the Trump administration three years ago, foreign policy observers are also raising red flags about Tehran’s growing stockpile of conventional weapons.
By Hollie McKay | May 11, 2021 | 6:58pm EDT
An Iranian-made ballistic missile on display at the Holy Defense Museum in Tehran. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – As talks continue in Vienna in a bid to resume the 2015 Iran nuclear deal abandoned by the Trump administration three years ago, foreign policy observers are also raising red flags about Tehran’s expanding stockpile of conventional weapons.
In particular, the regime’s proliferation of ballistic missiles is seen as an increasing threat to America’s allies and interests in the volatile region.
Although Iran has for four decades been party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is not a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) or The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation.
By Hollie McKay | May 11, 2021 | 6:58pm EDT
An Iranian-made ballistic missile on display at the Holy Defense Museum in Tehran. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – As talks continue in Vienna in a bid to resume the 2015 Iran nuclear deal abandoned by the Trump administration three years ago, foreign policy observers are also raising red flags about Tehran’s expanding stockpile of conventional weapons.
In particular, the regime’s proliferation of ballistic missiles is seen as an increasing threat to America’s allies and interests in the volatile region.
Although Iran has for four decades been party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is not a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) or The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation.
The AGM-183A completed its second test flight last year (Image: USAF/Kyle Brasier)
Speaking last year, former US president Donald Trump raised eyebrows with an off-the-cuff reference to his own country’s attempts to develop hypersonics.
During a presentation at the White House on Friday to unveil the new Space Force flag, Mr Trump referred to a project which may or may not have been ARRW.
He said: We’re building right now, incredible military equipment, at a level that nobody’s ever seen before, we have no choice we have to do it, with the adversaries we have out there.
February 2, 2021
Largely unreported in corporate media, last week Chinese fighters apparently simulated sinking a U.S. carrier in an attack. On Jan. 23, according to intel sources, cockpit chatter highlighted a command to simulate targeting the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier group.
China has been in news over sporadic border clashes with India and a flyby of Taiwan on the day of President Biden’s inauguration. But a direct simulation of a strike on a U.S. carrier group signifies that Beijing now considers even a limited military clash with America over Taiwan within the realm of possibility.
That brings us to the biggest foreign policy question, which the Biden administration is likely not yet ready to face. What happens the day after China launches an invasion of Taiwan?