DEBKAfile - Iran’s Space Venture Will Enhance its Nuclear Military Resources

DEBKAfile - Iran’s Space Venture Will Enhance its Nuclear Military Resources
The practical ramifications of this enhanced Iranian capability is that it makes Israel's present anti-missile defenses inadequate, thereby further increasing the chance/need for early preemptive Israeli strikes if the international community cannot/will not achieve success withthe Iranians through either the carrot or the stick. With Ehud Olmert's popularity rating at around 14% (could you imagine being envious of President Bush's popularity rating?), if Olmert is still in power by the Summer there is a reasonable likelyhood of some form of Israeli preemptive action by then against Iran. The global capital markets are simply ignoring this possibility.