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November 29, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/middleeast/29missiles.html

Iran Has Missiles that Can Reach Western Europe

(New York Times) William J. Broad, James Glanz and David E. Sanger - Iran obtained 19 advanced missiles from North Korea, according to a cable dated Feb. 24, 2010. The cable is a detailed, highly classified account of a meeting between top Russian officials and an American delegation led by Vann H. Van Diepen, an official with the State Department's nonproliferation division who, as a national intelligence officer several years ago, played a crucial role in the 2007 assessment of Iran's nuclear capacity. The missiles could for the first time give Iran the capacity to strike at capitals in Western Europe or at Moscow, and American officials warned that their advanced propulsion could speed Iran's development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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