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Apparently while we are busy getting fondled by the TSA, this is what the rest of the world was ignoring:

North Korea secretly gave Iran 19 powerful missiles with a range of 2,000 miles. The missiles, known as the BM-25, are modified from Russian R-27s, which were submarine-based missiles carrying nuclear weapons

How insanely scary is that?

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There's always a worse thing. We can fight multiple injustices/wrongs at once. I don't like it when people say we've been duped into paying attention to the wrong wrong.

Don't let all this leaked stuff cause us to forget about the TSA and their (and the government at large's) ridiculousness.

So what? US (and other countries) has much worse missiles. US is the only country who used nuclear weapons in war.

Why do you fear Iran so much? US, Russia, China seem much more dangerous from the point of view of the weapons.

Iran is being bullied by the US for no real reason. Even if they were building nuclear weapons, it's their right. A bunch of countries have them.

The issue most likely is not the weapons themselves, but who controls them. A stockpile of weapons are only dangerous in the "wrong" hands. If Iran is being bullied, as you put it, then it's not just by the U.S. Quite a few other countries apparently feel those weapons would essentially be in the "wrong" hands if Iran acquires them.

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