Over the past several years, the United States and Israel have alleged that Iran has been secretly enriching their uranium for military-grade nuclear weaponry after suspicions arose following what the U.S. media has interpreted as threats from Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They have said that he has chanted "Death to Israel" and that "Israel would soon disappear off the map." Alternatively, other interpretations have corrected these misinterpretations from Ahmadinejad as, "The Imam said this regime occupying Israel must vanish from the page of time" and that "the solution to the Palestinian-Israeli issue is democracy."
Iran has been signatory to the Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons since 1968, but the IAEA Director General in November 2003, Mohamed ElBaradei, disclosed that Iran had failed in many of its responsibilities to remain compliant per Article XII.C of the IAEA Statutes where Iran neglected to declare its uranium enrichment program before moving forward with it. Israel has refused to sign the Treaty since its creation.
Last week, Pentagon Spokesman, George Little, held a press conference about Iranian fighter jets shooting at an unarmed surveillance drone flying in international airspace. When asked by a reporter if this was "an act of war," Little downplayed the notion as "labels." Since the airspace confrontation Iran has waged a massive field operation of 8,000 Iranian troops to form a land and air-defense skirmish lining the Eastern perimeter of the country. Iran has decided to "test" their own hawk missiles amid the escalating tensions between them and the West with concern to their nuclear program and the "classified" drone situation.
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