{"id":7021,"date":"2017-02-09T17:23:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2017-02-09T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:23:38","slug":"iran-fires-another-missile-from-launch-pad-us-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/7021\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran fires another missile from launch pad, US official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7022 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20172993314631499521_Mersad-missile.-Screenshot-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20172993314631499521_Mersad-missile.-Screenshot-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20172993314631499521_Mersad-missile.-Screenshot.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/>Fox News, February 08, 2017<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; Iran launched another missile Wednesday from the same launch pad east of Tehran where it conducted a previous ballistic missile test last month, an official told Fox News.<br \/>\nThe Semnan launch pad was the same as the one where Fox News reported exclusively on Tuesday, satellite photos showed Iran had placed a Safir rocket poised to put a satellite into space before it was taken off the launcher. The reason Iran scrubbed the previous launch is not yet known.<br \/>\nThe missile used in Wednesday\u2019s launch was a short-range Mersad surface-to-air missile, which impacted 35 miles away, according to a U.S. official.<br \/>\nThis latest test comes less than a week after the U.S. placed new sanctions on Iran. There\u2019s been a flurry of activity at the Semnan launch pad, located about 140 miles east of Tehran, in recent weeks, officials have told Fox News.<br \/>\nOn Jan. 29, Iran launched a new type of medium-range ballistic missile prompting an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Jan. 31. A day later the White House issued a strongly worded statement from National Security Adviser Mike Flynn putting Iran &#8216;on notice.&#8217; President Trump tweeted a similar statement soon after.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called Iran\u2019s recent ballistic missile launch \u201cvery dangerous\u201d and said the launch \u201cshould not have happened,\u201d and agreed with President Trump that new sanctions on the Islamic Republic were needed.<br \/>\nU.N. Resolution 2231 calls upon Iran not to conduct ballistic missile tests &#8212; but does not forbid the nation from doing so. The resolution went into effect days after the landmark nuclear deal with signed with Western nations including the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Fox News, February 08, 2017 &#8211; Iran launched another missile Wednesday from the same launch pad east of Tehran where it conducted a previous ballistic <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/7021\/\" title=\"Iran fires another missile from launch pad, US official says\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7023,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions\/7023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}