Posted on 11/21/2005 10:14:57 AM PST by humint
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Tehran is building nuclear-warhead capable missiles with help from North Korean experts in a vast underground complex, Iranian opposition sources said Monday. The project was initiated at the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1989. The plan involves dozens of immense tunnels and facilities built under the mountains near Tehran. "North Korean experts have cooperated with the Tehran regime in the design and building of this complex," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, president of Strategic Policy Consulting, and a former representative of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq. "Many blueprints of the site have been prepared by North Korean experts."
Hemmat Industries Group Factory, the most important branch of Iran's Aerospace Industries Group is currently building Shahab-1, Shahab-2, Shahab-3 and Ghadar missiles, according to Jafarzadeh. Shahab-3 and Ghadar missiles have nuclear warhead capability. "Shahab-3 missiles are being manufactured in large numbers, and are already part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards arsenal," Jafarzadeh told United Press International.
The Ghadar missile is still in the production stage, and is 70 percent complete. Shahab-3 has a range of 1,300 to 1,900 km (800-1,100 miles) and Ghadar has a range of 2,500 to 3,000 km (1,150-1,850 miles). Working in utmost secrecy Hemmat Industries Group have been allocated code numbers. Movahed Industries, codenamed 7,500, builds the body of the missile and does final assembly. Karimi Industries, the most secretive part of the program, codenamed 2500, builds the warhead.
This group is located in the largest tunnel at the Khojir complex deep inside the Khojir and Bar Jamali Mountain. The tunnel is about 1,000 meters (yards) long, 12 meters wide. Iran has refused to allow U.N. inspectors to visit the military sites where much of the nuclear weapons work is reported to be conducted. Information obtained by Jafarzadeh from source in Iran indicate that A.Q. Khan traveled to Iran in 1987 where he met with three top commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who were working at the time on nuclear research. The IRGC delegation was headed by Brig. Gen. Mohammad Eslami.
To effectively confront the Iranian government, the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism, we members of the international community need to demand sweeping institutional reforms at the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Reforms that will develop these organizations into governing bodies capable of fulfilling their mission statements! Without an effective human rights and nuclear proliferation policing organization with the will to fulfill its duty, the burden naturally falls on the world’s most able nation, the United States of America. But no single nation can accomplish what a consensus body of nations could do together with one voice. To that end, a challenge to the community of free nations from the Iranian regime, regardless of their motives, must be answered with decisive diplomacy… failing that; a decisive long term “regime change” policy and failing that, as a last resort; decisive military action. In my humble opinion...
" the burden naturally falls on the world’s most able nation, the United States of America."
and the most motivated nation: Israel.
There is most definitely a consensus between the U.S. and Israel on Iran. But I'm sure you agree that developing a larger consensus is in the interest of both Israel and the United States. Unfortunately, the majority of the nations that sit on the IAEA’s Board of Governors does not see this issue as clearly as Israel and the U.S. do. Maybe an institutional reform would be to hire an optometrist to check the prescriptions of all UN and IAEA diplomats and issue new frames and lenses to those in need.
It might not sound like much but I’m ready to donate my bulk mail Lens Crafters coupons to the cause…
with the North Koreans who can't even make a decent cup of coffee building 'em and the Iranians who can't drive a cab in NYC firing the missiles; I don't think we have a thing to worry about!
between the two of 'em they'll probably blow themselves to hell trying to figure out red is positive and black is negative! LMAO
The fact that the IAEA is run by an Egyptian discredits it completely. Whose brilliant idea was that?
I fear that the only question now is whether a Demodog or a Republican will be in office when Iran finally demonstrates nuclear missile technology.
A couple of years ago when I started paying attention to this issue, I asked myself, "What's the political rationale for a state like Iran to challenge the U.S. a nation that has been to our Moon and back, by developing a nuclear weapon and the means to deliver it?" Although this is an "unknown", I thought estimation was in order...
I came to the conclusion that the actions of Iran do not fit on our scale of rationality. What would make sense to you or me is absurd to them and vice-versa. Much of official Iranian logic is derived from their anti-American identity. When I looked analytically at the Iranian government, I was struck by the realization that its institutions do not posses an identity of their own but are defined as an “anti-identity”. And the derivative institutions have been formed solely to support this “anti-identity”. When this most recent incarnation of Iran was born its leaders maligned Islam to create legitimacy where they had none. But this version of Islam, as the free world is quickly coming to realize, is just an incantation. It will collapse, not because they can’t afford [financially or intellectually] to deliver a functioning bomb, but because they are maintaining their dictatorship with an easily exposed lie.
The North Korean infidels are helping the Iranian Islamofascists attain the ability to blow them up. How dumb is that?
Hitler created incredible havoc with his partners in evil, while it was revealed later that his full ambitions included their eventual annihilation. It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn both NK and Iran have "secret plans" to destroy each other, after they've destroyed the community of free nations.
Here's another website with some good info:
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1816
This site has great info the lenses of the MSM will never see. I've been following US-Iran issues for more than a few years and admittedly it's not easy to sift through the myriad of experts, groups and commentary to find tangible solutions. The story you pointed me to is good because the Iran policy Committee (IPC) has compiled a detailed list of tangible solutions. I've read much about NGOs and Think Tanks like the IPC. Their influence on democratic decision making is extreemly positive and I think the IPC has all the right stuff to help our representatives and President make great decisions. At a minimum the IPC has strengthened the President’s hand by expanding his list of tangible options. Thanks for the link...
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