Ever since Obama declared that Iran is relatively "insignificant threat," I've been trying to figure out exactly how little I should be worried. On a scale of "totally insignificant" to "pretty fucking scary", where do you think intercontinental missiles rank?

The head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said Friday that Iran was not far from attaining the means of using missiles against all of Europe and against the US in five to six years, Israel Radio reported. Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III was speaking in Prague in an effort to convince the Czech Parliament to approve a US missile defense installation in the country's territory.

Keep in mind that these are intercontinental ballistic missiles backed by newly revealed clandestine nuclear experiments that some are saying have already borne fruit. So that may or may not change things:

Iran has recently tested ways of recovering highly enriched uranium from waste reactor fuel in a covert bid to expand its nuclear program, according to an intelligence assessment made available to The Associated Press. The intelligence, provided by a member of the 145-nation International Atomic Energy Agency, also says a report will soon be submitted to the Iranian leadership for a decision on whether to go ahead with the project.

And while everyone's got their calculator out, how about Iranian-sponsored suicide attacks?

Following the recent U.S. strikes in Pakistan and Syria, Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani threatened suicide attacks against the U.S. Speaking in the Majlis, he warned the U.S. that "its adventurousness would have a price that it would not be able to control," and that the response to its aggression would not take the form of diplomatic protest. He added that "the way to prevent this American behavior, which was reflected in acts of aggression, is to react in a strong and unpredictable way that was bequeathed to us by the martyr Fahmideh, [2] and employed by Hizbullah in the 2006 Lebanon War, which constituted a ringing slap [in the] Zionists' [face]...

I'm also eager to know where freeing high-level jihadists and attacking US troops in Iraq fall on the scale, but those stories are already a few months old and everybody knows that Obama only has to answer for the now. Cf. meeting with Ahmadinejad without preconditions, Wright, dismantling the US military, Khalidi, uncertainty about whether Israel is an important ally, ACORN, "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people", Ayers, promising to make energy prices "skyrocket," etc.

At least Iran seems willing to reciprocate the kind of diplomatic overtures that are at the center of Obama's foreign policy. What's that? Khamenei has signaled ironclad opposition to any thaw in relations: