Iran Fortifies Its Arsenal With the Aid of North Korea

New York Times ^ | 11/28/2010 | William J. Broad, James Glanz and David E. Sanger.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Secret American intelligence assessments have concluded that Iran has obtained a cache of advanced missiles, based on a Russian design, that are much more powerful than anything Washington has publicly conceded that Tehran has in its arsenal, diplomatic cables show.

Iran obtained 19 of the missiles from North Korea, according to a cable dated Feb. 24 of this year. The cable is a detailed, highly classified account of a meeting between top Russian officials and an American delegation led by Vann H. Van Diepen, an official with the State Department’s nonproliferation division who, as a national intelligence officer several years ago, played a crucial role in the 2007 assessment of Iran’s nuclear capacity.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Ping

[blackdog]

The aid organizational flow chart is backwards.

The headline should read "Obama Administration assures Iranians Full Air Defense Capabilities By Deliberate Inaction"

There, that's better........

[Diogenesis]

With El-Baradei tied to Tehran by sister,
and Obama tied to Tehran oh so many ways,
the West is in serious trouble.

Both have labored to give Tehran nukes and
delivery systems.

[tobyhill]

and Obama has been pretending all along that we're not sure Iran is developing nuke weapons and if they were they are still “years” away.

[blackdog]

I wonder if Chuckie Schumer, Joe Lieberman, Henry Waxman, Jerry Nadler, Nita Lowey, or any of the American political machine of Jewish persuasion(even Hillary is 1/4 Jewish right?) will call Obama an outright liar, who is more interested in supporting an Islamic Empire?

[Williams]

You don’t have to be Jewish to be concerned about Iran.

[blackdog]

Ya think? The point was that Israel used to count on the liberal NY-ish wing for support, knowing it would be there without question.

Obama is obviously more interested in forging new alliances with evil, than maintaining existing ones with proven allies.

Me thinks wikiwi will be fleshing those details out in a very painful way to watch over the next few weeks.

[NonValueAdded]

Look, Jimmy Carter’s “kids” are all grown up.

[cruise_missile]

From February 2009:

Iran launches homegrown satellite:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7866357.stm

Iran Launches Satellite in a Challenge for Obama:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/world/middleeast/04iran.html

[SunkenCiv]

• Iran Fortifies Its Arsenal With the Aid of North Korea
• WikiLeaks: North Korea Shipped 19 Advanced Nuclear-Capable Missiles to Tehran
• Iran Deploys Troops, Ballistic Missiles To Eritrea [December 8, 2008]
• US Navy Intercepts Iranian Arms Vessel (defense officals confirm)
• Israelis warn of Eritrea flashpoint