Recent satellite images uncovered the site where Iran is intensively developing ballistic missiles with a range of approximately 6000 kilometers. According to a report in the London based Times, in early February, the Isamic Republic announced that it had launched a research rocket as part of its space program but foreign experts estimated that it was a test run for a ballistic missiles.
Four days after the launching, images from Digital Global QuickBird satellite revealed that at the site where the launching of the Kavoshgar 1 missile took place is also the site where Iran is busy developing long range ballistic missiles.
According to the report the site is located approximately 230 kilometers from Teheran and was never identified as a site for the Iranian weapons program, until a weapons expert carefully studied the images and revealed the findings in the Jane’s Intelligence Review.
The report noted that in the past, Korea chose to hide behind the façade of a space program right up until it announced it had passed the nuclear weapons threshold.
Avital Johanan, editor of the Jane’s Proliferation said the recent satellite images indicated that Iran is approximately five years away from developing a ballistic missile with a range of 6000 kilometers.
Such missiles launched from the vicinity of Teheran would not only place Middle East countries under direct threat but also the whole of Europe including Britain and almost anywhere in China, Russia and most of India the report noted..04/11/08
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