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Congress Fumes As Experts Say Iran Violated UN Ban By Test-Firing Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile

On October 11, Iran test-fired a new generation of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles capable of hitting Israel. 

The Emad, as the long-range weapon is called, is a variant of Tehran’s Shahab-3, has a range of 1,700 kilometers, and is accurate to within 500 meters, according to  Anthony Cordesman, a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. For those who might have missed it, here is the clip:

Watch Jimmy Carter Ban Iran Immigrants And Deport Students During The Hostage Crisis

One of Donald Trump's recurring refrains ever since the San Bernardino shooting, ostensibly the one which prompted him to declare he would bar Muslims from entering the country - an announcement which has unleashed an unprecedented media scandal - is that the "US is at war." Whether or not that is the case remains to be seen (we expect tens of thousands of US troops to be deployed soon, this time  without the protective cloak of CIA "covert ops") but what is certain is that Trump is merely proposing to do what Democrat Jimmy Carter did back on April 7, 1980, when he banned Iranians from the

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