Iran Secretly Tests Long-Range Missile
Friday, April 11, 2008
By: Newsmax Staff
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Iran_long_range_missiles/2008/04/11/87222.html
New satellite photos have uncovered the secret site where Iran is
thought to be developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching
targets in Europe.
The site about 140 miles southeast of Tehran was revealed by Jane's
Intelligence Review after a study of photographs taken by the Digital
Globe
QuickBird satellite.
The photos were snapped four days after the Feb. 4 launch of Iran's
Kavoshgar 1 rocket, which Iran claimed was connected to the nation's space
program.
Iran is believed to be developing a ballistic missile with a range
of
about 4,000 miles, the Times of London re****ted.
The imagery shows that there is a recently constructed building on
the
site similar in form and size to the Taepodong long-range missile assembly
facility in North Korea, according to Geoffrey Forden, a research
associate
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former Iraq weapons
inspector.
An analysis of the site indicated that Iran may be about five years
away from developing the 4,000-mile missile, said Avital Johanan, editor
of
Jane's Proliferation.
That would underline "why President Bush wants the Polish and Czech
components of the U.S. missile defense system to be up and running by
2013,"
according to the Times.
The Kavoshgar 1 rocket launched in February in the presence of
Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was based on the Shahab 3B missile, a
version
of North's Korea's Nodong missile, which was developed by Pyongyang
re****tedly with extensive assistance from China.
The Times disclosed that according to Jane's Intelligence Review,
the
satellite photos "prove that the Kavoshgar 1 rocket was not part of a
civilian space center project but was consistent with Iran's clandestine
program to develop longer-range missiles."
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CB
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The Shape of Things to Come
Iran has nothing to hide, right? How about the UN ax the kook (wants
world chaos so the 12 imam will resurrect from the well) of Iran for a
tour
of the sight?
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