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Report: Iran Halts Missile Work Over Sanctions

2012-08-01

London's International Institute for Strategic Studies says financial vise placed on Tehran by West prompted changes in Islamic Theocratic Republic's pursuit of advances ballistic missiles

Of course, the only way to really know is to send armed men in army boots tramping through...

The financial sanctions and oil embargo imposed on Iran by the West have affected the Islamic Theocratic Republic's ballistic missile development program, a new report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies said Monday.

Who?

According to the London-based IISS, the financial sanctions "have stymied efforts to develop and produce the long-range ballistic missiles capable of striking potential targets in western Europe and beyond."

Oh. That's ok then. Tea?

The sanctions, and especially trade embargos placed in the exports of information technology components and knowledge, have prevented the Islamic Theocratic Republic from accessing key propellant ingredients and components needed for the continued development of its missile program.

IISS believes that the problems Iran is facing have stemmed the development of its long-range Ghadr missiles -- Ghadr-1 has a maximum range of roughly 1,600km when and carries some 750kg of explosives; as well as its Sajjil missiles -- Sajjil-2 has a maximum range of about 2,000km and can carry a 1,300--1,500kg warhead.

According to the IISS, Sajjil-2 offers Iran three significant strategic benefits: It is based in solid fuel, requires smaller logistical infrastructure and because of its relatively compact design it can be easily fitted on road-mobile launchers.

Sajjil-2's range is superior to that of the Ghadr-1 and it can reach Israel; and moreover, Sajjil technology could provide the foundation for the development of longer-range missiles.

But Iran has only tested the Sajjil-2 about 20 times -- not enough to make the missile operational -- and IISS said that Tehran would need to conduct "at least another half-dozen flight tests" before the missile could be deployed.

"Iran's missile-related activities suggest that the reason for the hiatus is not that it is seeking to avoid provoking international opprobrium for violating UN sanctions," the institute said, adding it is more likely that a major design flaw was discovered.

Meanwhile,
...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell...
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
is expected to arrive in Israel on Tuesday, as part of a Mideast tour.

Speaking to news hounds on his plane, Panetta said that "With regards to where Israel is right now, my view is that they have not made any decisions with regards to Iran and that they continue to support the international effort to bring pressure against Iran" to stop its nuclear program.

Panetta will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

Panetta's visit follows that of US Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ...
, US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Republican presidential hopeful Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O...

It's like Grand Central Station over there for some reason.

Posted by:trailing wife

#6 Islamist-pressured Turkey is repor dev an ICBM, so allegedly also is the KSA whom are once again repor mulling buying NucWeaps from Pakistan, + of course there's Pakistan per se.

Methinks Iran's Govt. thinks they will successfully get their ICBM one way or another eventually, + can afford to temporarily stop their own LRBM DevProg to play politics wid the US + UN???

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-08-01 20:12

#5 Is it just my imagination ... or does Little Nell look happy today? New boyfriend perhaps??

Posted by: Raider 2012-08-01 13:08

#4 Arclight! Drink up!

Posted by: Frank G 2012-08-01 12:49

#3 the only way to really know is to send armed men in army boots tramping through

Either that or armed mechanical squirrels. Or bats. Or B2s. Or rods from God. or ..... ;-)

Posted by: lotp 2012-08-01 11:27

#2 As for the IISS, US SECDEF PANETTA says that despite new + increasingly severe UN Sanctions, Iran is N-O-T deterred from seeking to dev Nuclear Weapons.

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* FYI WAFF > [StrategyPage] WHO IS BUYING [Russia's] KILLER CONTAINERS?

"KLUB" TLCMS + "PANDORA'S BOX" MILSYS for Container/Cargo/Merchant Vessels.

* SAME< WORLD NEWS > [WND.com] IRAN PREPARING MAHDI'S SPECIAL FORCES. Army of Operatives planning for select TerrOps, General Destruction of the West.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > US FEARS NIGHTMARISH CONFLICT WID IRAN IN PERSIAN GULF: EXPERTS.

[NOSTRADAMUS = "....Until the SEVEN/SEVENTH holds the Line" here].

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-08-01 02:08

#1 Wehell, lessirree, the US-Allies believe NORTH KOREA only has enough Nucmats stockpiled to dev a handful of primitive Nukes, yet a US Think-tank weirdly-n-mysteriously says that North Korea has COUPLE HUNDRED-PLUS Tactical Nuclear Weapons already aimed at South Korea - thats NORTH KOREA SPECIFICALLY, NOT CHINA OR CHINA-N-DPRK.

More, the CIA is being criticized for being at least 10 years behind in its assessment of Pakistan's dev of its NucProg.

One has to wonder iff IRAN also suffers from the above "NORTH KOREA/PAKISTAN" SYNDROME as per accurate or reliable US Govt. Analyses of its NucProg???

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-08-01 01:52

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