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Iran Achieves a Four-Front Missile Command, Breakthrough on Nuclear Missile Warheads
DEBKAfiles military sources disclose that Irans Revolutionary Guards Corps have created a separate missile command, in which Syrias missile force is to be integrated. The joint command was formalized in a new mutual defense treaty signed by the Syrian defense minister, Gen. Hassan Turkmani in Tehran last week.Israeli military sources judge the operational merger of Iranian and Syrian missile corps to be a major strategic hazard to the Jewish state. Western and Israeli military experts connect it with other indications that Irans program for developing missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads has gone into high gear and reached an advanced stage. They believe the Iranians have beaten most of the technical difficulties holding it up. On May 26, the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, which often goes easy on Iran, released a harsh report confirming Irans progress in missile warhead design. The new missile command was cautiously announced last week by the IRGC commander, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari. He said: An independent command might be created in Sepah (IRGC) in order to fortify the structure and activities of the missile section. Military experts comment that Tehrans centralized control of four hostile missile fronts will virtually neutralize the American and Israeli anti-missile defense systems in the region; the Arrow and the Patriot missile interceptors could handle incoming missiles from one or maybe two directions but not four. Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-06-02 |
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