Talk:Great Prophet III

Currently being conducted?
This is poorly written since this event will not be "currently conducted" for eternity. --Edwin Larkin (talk) 15:34, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That will be changed when the exercise is finished. --GW_SimulationsUser Page 15:36, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Why is a "neutrality" tag on this article?
The only comment I see (above) is about the "currently conducted" language, which is a style complaint. I don't see any comments about neutrality. --Briefer (talk) 14:45, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * ...therefore, I've removed the tag. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 05:23, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Content to be merged if needed
Information may be excessive but referencing may be useful if info is trimmed down. Taken from Shahab-3 article: Sillyfolkboy (talk) 21:22, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

France
Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said: "These missile tests can only reinforce the concerns of the international community at a time when Iran is separately developing a nuclear program."

Germany
German government spokesman Thomas Steg urged Tehran to halt "all form of saber rattling." He added that since top world powers dealing with Iran's nuclear program had made a "gesture of goodwill" by offering incentives last month in return for Iran suspending uranium enrichment activities, "It is regrettable that Iran has responded to this gesture of the international community with a bad-will gesture."

Israel
Israeli parliamentarian, Housing Minister Ze'ev Boim said: "I suggest Israel will not talk, and Israel should prepare itself to do what is needed to do." Government spokesman Avi Pazner said: "We are very concerned, especially since we know that Iran is seeking to acquire the nuclear weapon." In like manner a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said the combination of nuclear weapons and delivery systems with "extremist jihadist ideology" can't be ignored. Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said: “The Iranian nuclear program and the Iranian ballistic missile program must be of grave concern to the entire international community.”

Russia
Russia's deputy foreign minister Sergei Kisliak said: "The signal that we have received in essence is that Iran is ready for negotiations. Today, all the conditions are there to begin a serious conversation with Iran. We must sit down at the negotiating table with our Iranian colleagues and examine all the possibilities."

United Kingdom
The Foreign Office described the test-firing as "unwelcome and mistimed." "We have to question why does Iran need such long-range missiles? What we have seen just underlines the need for Iran to comply with its international obligations on the nuclear issue."

USA
A senior US state department official said the launch was "provocative". US Under-secretary of State William Burns said that thanks to UN sanctions, Iran's real progress on its nuclear program had been "modest", despite its sabre-rattling. He went on to add that "We view force as an option that is on the table but a last resort." Both the presumptive nominees got in on the condemnations as well. Describing Iran as a "great threat", the Democratic challenger, Barack Obama, called for tougher sanctions while his Republican rival, John McCain, said the test demonstrated the need for effective missile defence. Secretary of State, Rice, said this was "evidence that the missile threat is not an imaginary one." Adding, "It's time for Iranians to stop violating their Security Council obligations and start fulfilling them." State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said, despite the lack of evidence on the technical details, that the test firing "demonstrates that Iran has a very active and aggressive military program under way." This includes "efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, as well as delivery systems. I think Iran's military posture, military development effort, is of concern to the international community. [Evidence] is the kind of consensus you're seeing with regard to their nuclear program as well as other nonproliferation concerns." US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates said: "This certainly addresses the doubts raised by the Russians that the Iranians won't have a longer range ballistic missile for 10 to 20 years. The fact is they just tested a missile that has a pretty extended range. So, my view, in the first instance, is we've been saying, as we've talked about missile defense in Europe, that there is a real threat. And it seems to me that the test this morning underscores that." Adding, "There is a lot of signaling going on. But I think everybody recognizes what the consequences of any kind of a conflict would be. And I will tell you that this government is working hard to make sure that the diplomatic and economic approach to dealing with Iran, and trying to get the Iranian government to change its policies is the strategy and is the approach that continues to dominate." US President George W. Bush said: "There is common agreement that the Iranians should not have a nuclear weapon, the capacity to make a nuclear weapon or the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon. The reason there's common agreement is because the Iranian government with such a weapon as it's now constituted would pose a serious threat to world security." Gordon Johndroe, deputy White House press secretary, said in a statement at the Group of 8 meeting in Japan that Iran's development of ballistic missiles was a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. "The Iranian regime only furthers the isolation of the Iranian people from the international community when it engages in this sort of activity. [Iran ought to] refrain from further missile tests if they truly seek to gain the trust of the world." Adding, "The Iranians should stop the development of ballistic missiles which could be used as a delivery vehicle for a potential nuclear weapon immediately."

Iran
The tests were claimed to be a response to Israeli aerial war games staged earlier in the month. Ali Shirazi, representative of the Revolutionary Guards naval forces said, warned that Iran would "set fire" to Israel and the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf as its first response to any pre-emptive strike by America or Israel over its nuclear program. Brig. Gen. Hoseyn Salami, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' air force, said: "Our missiles are ready for shooting at any place and any time, quickly and with accuracy." He also made the statement that "enemy targets are under surveillance." Speaking on a visit to Malaysia on Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the possibility of an attack by the US or Israel as a "joke."

Gen. Mohammad Hejazi, chief of the Guards' joint staff, called the missile tests a "defensive measure against invasions." He also said, Iran will not jeopardize the interests of neighboring countries.

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