The frenetic spirit conveyed by the U.S. administration in President Donald Trump’s second week in office can clearly be seen in the international arena.

On Monday, Fox News reported that Iran had decided to size up Trump by conducting a ballistic missile test over the weekend. The test failed, but the launch seemed to be taunting the new U.S. president. Throughout his campaign Trump threatened to cancel the nuclear agreement between Iran and the six world powers, but he has been more reticent on the matter of late.

According to the Fox report, the test took place at a site near Tehran, with a missile the Iranians call Khorramshahr (which is actually a North Korean ground missile version of an older Soviet missile, originally launched from a submarine). The missile has a range of about 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) and a warhead that weighs about a ton; it can also carry a nuclear warhead. Fox quoted senior U.S. officials who claimed the missile was able to fly 965 kilometers before exploding.

The test launch is not a breach of the agreement signed in Vienna between Iran and the world powers in July 2015. But it goes against the UN Security Council resolution passed shortly thereafter (in the wake of the Vienna agreement), prohibiting such tests. The Iranians, who object to this interpretation of the resolution, held similar tests about six months ago, which the Obama administration chose to show restraint over.

Read the full article at Haaretz.