Posted on 11/29/2010 1:21:15 PM PST by Reaganite Republican
Berlin and Moscow now within range of the vile, apocalyptic Iranian regime...
Most defense experts had heard of individual advanced missile components supplied to Tehran by Pyongyang- but entire nuclear-capable North Korean missiles complete with their massive boosters are a bit of a shocker... and how did they get them there, anyway?
Alas, the BM-25's were indeed serendipitously sent, and are already in Iran... where they are being studied, improved, while the technologies are applied to their space program and ongoing development of an ICBM that can reach the US mainland.
They immediately increase the range Iran's arsenal to 2000 miles from the previous 1200 max... Secret American intelligence assessments have concluded that Iran has obtained a cache of advanced missiles, based on a Russian design, that are much more powerful than anything Washington has publicly conceded that Tehran has in its arsenal, diplomatic cables show.
Iran obtained 19 of the missiles from North Korea, according to a cable dated Feb. 24 of this year...
The missiles could for the first time give Iran the capacity to strike at capitals in Western Europe or easily reach Moscow, and American officials warned that their advanced propulsion could speed Iran’s development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
There has been scattered but persistent speculation on the topic since 2006, when fragmentary reports surfaced that North Korea might have sold Iran missiles based on a Russian design called the R-27, once used aboard Soviet submarines to carry nuclear warheads. In the unclassified world, many arms control experts concluded that isolated components made their way to Iran, but there has been little support for the idea that complete missiles, with their huge thrusters, had been secretly shipped.
The Feb. 24 cable, which is among those obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to a number of news organizations, makes it clear that American intelligence agencies believe that the complete shipment indeed took place, and that Iran is taking pains to master the technology in an attempt to build a new generation of missiles.
The missile intelligence also suggests far deeper military — and perhaps nuclear — cooperation between North Korea and Iran than was previously known. At the request of the Obama administration, The New York Times has agreed not to publish the text of the cable.
Interestingly, two important Iranian nuclear engineers driving to work this morning had bombs attached to their car by motorcycle-mounted assassins while in motion... one dead, one wounded.
Oh well, that's a dangerous business they chose...
More/links at Reaganite Republican
I know. I’m not surprised, and I don’t know what I can do about it. I remember growing up, living under the threat of nuclear war. Then, being glad when the USSR fell. How stupid was I to think the threat was over. Glad only that I know where I will be the moment after wards if it comes to that.
I like the British sense of hopeless doom. Makes it obvious how we won the War of Independence.
Frankly, I'm surprised the Brits didn't just mass suicide.
Super Supplements sell the same thing...not all that expensive either.
Hey, we didn’t quit in 1940 I’ll have you know... That said, Britain is a small island, so nuclear war would pretty much wipe us out with all those nukes going off in cities only a few score miles apart. America outside the major cities might fair better though, with many towns being stuck in the middle of nowhere hundreds of miles away from anywhere significant. Britain’s sense of doom in the case of a nuclear holocaust is perfectly justified. Mass suicide would probably be the superior alternative to waiting to die of radiation sickness (or cannibal mutants)....
Thanks.
Will check it out.
Trustworthy quality??
Gee, really? I would have never guessed.
" At the request of the Obama administration, The New York Times has agreed not to publish the text of the cable."
So nice of the New York Times to do that for Obama.
I'm positive they'd agree to such a request from a Republican administration. (Hint, I suspect that there must be something very embarrassing to the Obama Regime. The tacit policy of the NYTimes is to protect the Democrat Party and the installed Obama Regime whatever the news may be.)
Hmmm. Does this shed any light on the "contrail / missile" off of the California coast ?
Lead-lined tinfoil hat adjusted.
Cheers!
supersup.com....I haven’t taken the things, I don’t even know if it is safe to do so. In my research, there a quite a few contra-indicative mumbo jumbo.....bad effects? I always meant to research how to use the stuff in the event of a dirty bomb event or a nuke war....haven’t yet.
Accountablity and responsibility not exactly the Left’s strong suit is it
You’re right... they’re planning to fail with the Norks and Mullahs in Tehran... and doing just that
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