Iran Modifies Shahab-3 Missile Cone
Earlier this month, we blogged about Iran’s threat to deploy Shahab-3 missiles in retaliation against Israel if it preemptively strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities. According to the United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has evidence that Tehran, Iran’s capital, secretly tried to modify a Shabab-3 missile cone to fit a nuclear payload.
Israel News reports that Iran denies the claim as a fabrication, although the watchdog agency provided documents and photos to the contrary. An excerpt of the article:
“Iran said an IAEA inquiry into its nuclear activity was at a dead-end because the agency was demanding Tehran reveal conventional military secrets without nuclear dimensions. Iran has denied seeking atom bombs.
“Britain has accused Iran of showing contempt for the UN watchdog and, with the United States and France, vowed to seek harsher sanctions on Tehran over its defiance of UN demands for full disclosure and a suspension of uranium enrichment.”
According to the IAEA, Iran is also involved in uranium enrichment, which is capable of making nuclear fuel or warhead payloads, although a U.S. intelligence report stated last year that Tehran “stopped all direct work” by 2003.
Tags: Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Shahab-3 Missile, Tehran, United Nations