Gates: Iran Might Attack Europe With ‘Hundreds of Missiles’

Well, if you're talking in a metaphysical sense, where anything that's physically possible could happen, then the United States might attack Europe with hundreds of missiles. The difference between the United States and Iran is, the United States actually has a history of attacking other nations with 'hundreds of missiles', whereas Iran does not. So the question that inevitably rises is, sure, they might, but...

No Clue Given to Why on Earth They Would

Jason Ditz
AntiWar.com -

In what must be among the wildest speculations of the Obama Administration, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates sought to defend a massive US missile defense system in Europe by guessing that Iran might fire “scores or even hundreds of missiles” at Europe.

The number given is based on estimates of the size of Iran’s long range missile arsenal, and the fact that the best of Iran’s missiles has a maximum range which would allow them, if fired from Iran’s western border, to reach the southeastern tip of Europe.

This would hypothetically allow Iran to really put a hurting on a nation like Croatia or Macedonia, though why on earth this is even a topic of discussion is unclear, as Iran has no conceivable reason for doing so.

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