And a dozen entities. Irans Foreign Minister responded, also on twitter, saying iran unmoved by threats as we derive security from our people. We will never initiate war, but we can only reply on our own means of defence. So how serious a moment is this . Im joined by our diplomatic editor. Is this a harbinger of much worse to come like a Handbrake Turn on iran policy . In a sense it is Unfinished Business from the last months of the obama administration, these missiles, over 1000 mile range, not very accurate, the general view of Intelligence Experts is that they are being tested as Nuclear Delivery systems, that is counter to United Nations agreements. Another problem is that some people connected with these, the firing of warships by rebels in recent months, another issue is that basically apart from one counterstrike against those batteries president obama kicked the can down the road. So emphasis tonight from us officials is that this doesnt mean the end of the nuclear agreement,
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