“US officials acknowledge that Iran is more advanced than Iraq in both missile development and weapons of mass destruction. They say that Iran, with Russian help, has succeeded in advancing its nuclear project and they could arrive at weapons capability as early as 2005."
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The 1998 “Rumsfeld Report” or the Report of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (the) and the concurrent National Intelligence Estimate suggest that Iran and North Korea could deploy ICBMs as early as 2005.
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”U.S. military intelligence reports that have been publicly cited, have indicated that Russian entities signed contracts this year to help (Iran) produce liquid-fueled ballistics missiles, such as the SS-4.
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Iran can produce the Shihab-3 missile ‘locally’ now.
The Shehab-3, based on the North Korean Nodong-1, has a range of 1,300 km approximately 850 miles and can deplou nuclear or chemical missiles, far enough to reach Israel or Turkey. There have been additional reports that the Iranian objective is to develop a multistage, intercontinental missile with a range of 3,500 miles.
According to this brief, the Shihab-3 became operational in 2000, (which agrees with all the US State Department and Defense departments made in 1997 and 1998. )
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“The US detected the launch by Iran of a Shehab-3 missile of North Korean design with a range of up to 800 miles (1,300 km), enough to strike Israel, Saudi Arabia and portions of Russia and Turkey."
US claims Iran tested missile” Iran Daily 25 July 1998
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The Shehab-4, based on the Soviet SS-4, is expected to have a range of 2,000 km or ~1240 miles.” (Eisenstadt)
9,000 scientists, engineers and technicians from the former Soviet Union are currently in Iran as advisors.(June 1998)
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Defense Secretary Cohen has expressed concern that Iran may have produced up to 200 tons of VX nerve agent and 6,000 gallons of anthrax. "Thanks to equipment and technology legally or illegally imported from abroad, the Tehran regime is presently able to produce a series of biological and chemical weapons.
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HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ, House of Representatives, JUNE 3, 1998
In 1989, Irian president Rafsanjani underscored the need to obtain an atomic arsenal, stressing that `Iran cannot overlook the reality of nuclear strength in the modern world.' Nuclear arms, in the Tehran mullahs' view, are `the most important strategic guarantee' of their survival.”
But after Desert Storm, Iran started claiming that their buildup of nuclear and chemical and biological weapons was for defense.
"It's a Defensive Weapon -- No Offense!” says Iran. IRAN NEWS JULY 26, 1998
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Iran’s natural gas reserves are the second largest in the world, so they hardly need nuclear power. The Iranian regime (with the help of the US administration) continues the fiction that the nuclear reactions under construction are exclusively for production of domestic electricity." Tehran could probably acquire nuclear capability within a few years if it were to obtain fissile material and help from abroad.” (1998 information)
US STATE DEPARTMENT November 24, 1998 fas.org
June 1998.” Satellite reconnaissance of the Shahid Hemat Industrial Group research facility, not far south of Tehran, picked up the heat signature of an engine test for a new generation of Iranian ballistic missiles, `each capable of carrying a 2,200-lb. warhead more than 800 miles,' within strategic range of Israel and Turkey and maybe saudi arabia. fas.org
According to a CIA report in January 1998, Iran remains the largest illicit buyer of conventional weapons among `pariah' states, buying an estimated $20 million to $30 million worth of U.S. military parts in 1997.
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“Iran remains one of the most active countries seeking to acquire WMD and ACW technology from abroad. Iran, a Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) States party, already has manufactured and stockpiled chemical weapons — including blister, blood, choking, and probably nerve agents, and the bombs and artillery shells to deliver them. (CIA 2001)
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"Tehran's unrelenting quest for nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles clearly attests that the clerical regime has no intention of moderating its behavior. Appeasement by the West will only provide the mullahs with more room to maneuver." fas.org
According to State Department's most recent report on terrorism, Iran remains the most active state sponsor of terrorism, providing advanced weapons, training (11 training camps in Iran) financial aid to Hamas, Hezbollah, the PLO, Islamic Jihad and many other groups. Last fall Iran hosted representatives of numerous terrorist groups at a conference of liberation movements where they discussed greater coordination and support for some of the groups. That was one of many terrorist conferences over the years, and they are continuing to date.
The CIA report says that “China pledged in October 1997 to halt cooperation on a uranium conversion facility (UCF) and to forego any new nuclear cooperation with Iran.”
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China has broken all their promises, and Russia won’t promise.
"Fission for Cash" the reports are that at least two Russian nuclear agencies are in the shadow of Bushehr on the side, are quietly negotiating to sell Iran a 40 mega-watt heavy water research reactor and a uranium conversion facility that would allow fissionable materials to be produced by the Iranians. I would just ask, does this violate the non-proliferation policy of this government?
MR. RUBIN: Russia has declined to halt all nuclear cooperation with Iran. We used the Administration's executive order last summer against seven Russian entities involved in assisting Iran's ballistic missile program. WOW
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STATE DEPT. ON RUSSIA'S WORK ON IRAN NUCLEAR REACTOR (december 1998)
1998 Congressional Record from John Ashcroft for China’s broken promises.
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“In 1991, China supplies Iran with a research reactor capable of producing plutonium 10 and a calutron, a technology that can be used to enrich uranium to weapons-grade. 11 (Calutrons enriched the uranium in the `Little Boy' bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, and were at the center of Saddam Hussein's effort to develop an Iraqi nuclear bomb.)
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1994 China supplies a complete nuclear fusion research reactor facility to Iran, and provides technical assistance in making it operational. 12 China, with apparent U.S. acquiescence, agrees to replace France as supplier of low-enriched uranium fuel for India's U.S.-supplied Tarapur reactors. The U.S. cut off supply of LEU soon after India's nuclear explosion of 1974. This LEU supply makes it easier for India to concentrate other nuclear assets on its weapons program.
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In 1995, China exports 5,000 ring magnets to Pakistan. Such magnets are integral components of high-speed gas centrifuges of the type used by Pakistan to enrich uranium to weapons-grade.
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1997: “According to a CIA report, China is `a key supplier' of nuclear technology to Iran, exporting over $60 million worth annually. Fourteen Chinese nuclear experts are reportedly working at Iranian nuclear facilities. 17
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But what's done is done. Let this administration stop concealing Iran's WMD program, stop blaming Russia and China and Europe and the US itself for helping Iran because Iran is a real danger to the world. (So is Pakistan, imo)
Iraq is not, not now.
“Iran is operating on our map that we have here in 21 different countries around the world or has actions in 21 different countries around the world today.....And actually I've even heard reports of additional countries that are not on this map of operation by the Iranians. So they are there, they are active, they are pursuing expansionist desires. I was in Uzbekistan recently, I've been in Azerbaijan -- very concerned about the expansion of Iranian- supported groups in Central Asia and the South Caucasus in these weak, weak countries."
SENATOR BROWNBACK May 14, 1998
Foreign Relations Near Eastern and South Asian Affair Hearing REGARDING UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD IRAN.
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For all those who think that Hizbollah, which has been supported and nourished by Iran for years, is just a threat to the 'Jews" wake up. Hizbollah operates around the world, in the Mideast, In Africa, in south america, in Canada, and the United States. Imad Mughniyeh, former leader of Hizbollah, is now Ayotallah Khameni's right hand man. And Mughniyeh makes Bin Laden look like a boy scout. He has been on the FBI wanted list for over 20 years, has undergone plastic surgery, and is probably the world's most wanted (and feared) man. He was responsible for the '83 bombing of the US barracks in Beirut; was involved with the American hostages in 1979; personally murdered CIA Chief william Buckley in 1984; was involved in kidnapping the three Israeli soldiers about two years ago; who are assumed dead. According to Janes Intelligence: Imad Mugniyeh and Zawahari planned 9/11.
Hizbollah is trying to stir things up in northern Israel.
BTW, Hizbollah wears red headbands; so did the hijackers on Flight 93 that crashed in Pittsburg.
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