The medium-range ballistic missile Iran tested this week is similar to a model used by Pakistan, suggesting that Islamabad might be assisting Tehran in its weapons program, Israeli security analysts said (see GSN, May 20).
Iran's Shahab 3 missile developed from weapons technology used by North Korea and the former Soviet Union, while the Sajjil 2 missile Iran tested Wednesday resembled a type used by Pakistan, Tel Aviv University's Yiftah Shapir told Haaretz.
"It is closer to a Pakistani missile, the Shaheen 2, which is based on Chinese technology," the Press Trust of India quoted Shapir as telling the newspaper. "This suggests that it might be the Pakistanis who transferred technology to Iran for the development of the Sajjil ballistic missile."
The solid-fuel Sajjil 2 is believed to have a range of 1,200 miles, enabling it to hit targets in Israel and southeastern Europe. The weapon "should worry the Europeans," according to Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, who asserted that Tehran also wants to produce a ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.
Experts noted that the payload capacity of the Sajjil 2 is akin to that of the Soviet and North Korean models
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...and by similar, we mean they didn't even bother to scrape off the Made In Pakistan sticker.
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Or detach the ziplock bag containing the assembly instructions in both Simplified Chinese and Classic Chinglish. (How confident would you be about the quality control of that batch of work?)
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FREEREPUBLIC this AM > NEW INTELLIGENCE SUGGESTS IRAN HAS COMPLETED DESIGNS FOR NUCLEAR WARHEAD PRODUCTION.
Lest we fergit, RUSSIA > APPROXI 100 NUCLEAR WARHEADS [+ prob more, NOT less]] ARE STILL REPOR MISSING FROM RUSS = COLD WAR SOVIET INVENTORY.
* 1990's - post 9-11 NET > it may explain Radical Islam's desire to proceed wid its Jihad despite recognizing powerful or catastrophic anti-Islamist milpol opposition from the USA + ALLIES, i.e. ISLAMIST MILTERRS ARE NOT AFRAID BECUZ. AMONG OTHER, THEY ALREADY POSSESS A NUMBER OF NUCWEAPONS = CBRN/WMDS???
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They only had various types of trucks = industrial vehicles, maritime vesselsm etc. - WHAT THEIR MOVEMENT + FUTURE OWG-NWO ISLAMIST-JIHADIST SUPERSTATE DIDN'T HAVE WAS LR BALLISTIC MISSLES AND AIR-LAND-SPACE MIL ASSETS TO DETER THE MORE POWERFUL + TECH-SAAVY, NON-MUSLIM ANDOR ANTI-RADIC ISLAMIST WORLD NATIONS [read, US-NATO/Allies].
The more powerful one is at the beginining, the more difficult it may be for enemies over ???time to defeat or destroy you, correct!?
The three-day session is titled "Towards Bolstering Islamic Solidarity" and will be keynoted by Bashar al-Assad
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Al-Miqdad highlighted on Thursday the importance of the 36th session of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ministerial Council, due to start here on Saturday.
The three-day session, titled "Towards Bolstering Islamic Solidarity," gains additional significance as it coincides with delicate conditions in the Muslim world, the senior diplomat said in an interview with the Syrian TV station.
President Bashar al-Assad will delivers a keynote speech at the opening session of the conference, he noted.
The conference will provide an opportunity for the foreign ministers of 57 Islamic countries and representatives of some observer countries to discuss a wide-range of political, economic and social issues of common interest for the Muslim nation, Al-Miqdad pointed out.
On top of the agenda of the event are the Arab-Israeli conflict, the continuous Israeli violations in Jerusalem, the current situation of the peace process in the Middle East, and the situations in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and the Palestinian territories. The ministers will also discuss the situations in Iraq, Somalia and Sudan, the UN reforms, and the future role of the OIC in peacemaking and resolving the disputes among its member countries, he revealed.
In addition, the conferees will review the issues of Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims in foreign countries, the OIC-conceived ten-year development program and the Damascus Declaration and explore the ways to enhance economic cooperation among their countries.
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The three-day session, titled "Towards Bolstering Islamic Solidarity," gains additional significance as it coincides with delicate conditions in the Muslim world...
Well, at least I'll bet the banquets were awesome...
The United States renewed on Thursday its commitment to diplomatically engage with Iran after Tehran test-fired yesterday a medium-range missile.
The United States renewed on Thursday its commitment to diplomatically engage with Iran after Tehran test-fired yesterday a medium-range missile.
"We are still committed to a diplomatic resolution with Iran. We are still willing to try and go down the route of engagement, but we also will not allow Iran to use talks as an excuse to continue pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability", said State Department spokesperson Ian Kelly.
Iran appears to have successfully test-fired a medium-range missile called Sejil-2 with a range of at least 2,000 kilometers yesterday in a show of force announced by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the northern city of Semnan, near the launch site.
"We continue to believe that the best approach to this is multilateral engagement. That we have not given up on it. But our bottom line remains that we have to get to a point where Iran agrees to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons", noted Kelly. "We think the best way to do that is through multilateral leverage", concluded Kelly.
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