Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Has Received Missiles With European Range

Reuters: Iran has missiles that put Europe in range: report

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 Shahab-3 and the Shahab-4 have intermediate range and have Israel well within Iranian sites. But, this revelation of a nuclear capable strategic missile arriving in Iran may also foretell the revelation of more clandestine Iranian nuclear misadventures. France, Italy, Germany and Britain cannot be happy.

Range of the Shahab-3

Information on the SS-N-6.

The story about the purchase of 18 SS-N-6 missiles from North Korea.

Iran has bought 18 BM-25 missiles from North Korea which the Islamic Republic wants to transform to extend their range, the German press reported Dec. 16.

â€Iran has bought 18 disassembled BM-25 missiles from North Korea with a range of 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles),â€ Bild newspaper said, citing a report from the German secret services.

It added that Iranâ€™s ultra conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to have the range of the missiles â€œextended to 3,500 kilometersâ€.

The newspaper said that until now Iran only had Shehab-3 missiles with a range of 1,300 kilometers.

It further cited the secret service report as warning that â€œwith a longer range, and the probability that (Tehran) would try to equip the missiles with nuclear warheads, there is the risk that Iran could strike at Israel and parts of central Europe.â€

It added that according to the German intelligence services, Iranian experts were already working on fitting the missiles with nuclear warheads.

Range of the SS-N-6 et. al.

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.

Israel has been urging the international community to pressure Iran to halt its nuclear programme as well as its efforts to obtain long-range missiles.

Could intelligence reports on these missliles be influencing Russia and Germany?

ASSociated Press: Iran Called on to Fulfill Nuke Obligations

The leaders of Russia and Germany called on Iran to fulfill its international nuclear obligations Thursday, a day before a U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to stop enriching uranium.

And the international community wants the Mullahs and President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad to have a nuclear weapon?

PLEASE…….