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Source: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/irans-ballistic-missiles-are-actually-huge-problem-14804
Iran's Ballistic Missiles Are Actually a Huge Problem
(National Interest) Emily B. Landau and Shimon Stein - Iran continues to harbor military nuclear ambitions, and there is nothing in Iran's behavior, rhetoric or the nuclear deal (JCPOA) itself to indicate that it has backed away from the military nuclear intentions that we know it worked on at least up to 2009, according to the IAEA. According to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's worldwide threat assessment, "Iran's ballistic missiles are inherently capable of delivering WMD (weapons of mass destruction), and Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East." UN Security Council resolutions target Iran's work on ballistic missiles that can carry a nuclear payload and deem this work unacceptable. To argue that these resolutions do not matter is tantamount to closing one's eyes to an emerging threat. Emily Landau heads the Arms Control and Regional Security Program at the Institute for National Security Studies, where Amb. Shimon Stein is a senior research fellow.