[lit-ideas] Europe now in range of Iran's...err peaceful nuclear reactors
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:12:27 -0400
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-04-27T082608Z_01_L27159331_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-IRAN-MISSILES.xml&rpc=22
Iran has missiles that put Europe in range: report
Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:13am ET165
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Iran has received a first
shipment of missiles from North Korea that are
capable of reaching Europe, Israel's military
intelligence chief was quoted on Thursday as saying.
Known in the West as BM-25s, the Russian-designed
missiles have a range of around 1,500 miles,
giving them a longer reach than the Iranian-made
Shihab-4 missiles which are capable of hitting Israel.
The intelligence chief, Major-General Amos Yadlin,
was quoted by Israel's Haaretz newspaper as saying
in a lecture on Wednesday that some BM-25s had
arrived in Iran.
The BM-25 was originally manufactured in the
Soviet Union, where it was known as the SSN6, a
missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead,
Haaretz reported.
After the Russians decommissioned the SSN6, the
missiles were sold to North Korea, which adapted
them to carry a heavier payload, the newspaper's
military affairs correspondent said.
In February, a German diplomat, citing his
country's intelligence data, confirmed a German
newspaper report that said Iran had purchased 18
disassembled BM-25s from North Korea.
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