Iranian leader rejected Macron’s proposal to review the nuclear deal

Source: Tasnim News

The Iranian leaders have rejected the Macron’s proposal to review the nuclear deal. All the important officials, reacted to French President’s proposal, underlining that the JCPOA is unchangeable. The Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif wrote a tweet in English saying that “a better deal is fantasy”, while Ali Akbar Velayati, top aide of the Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei, said that Tehran “under no circumstances”, will accept new talks on the JCPOA, and that his country will not accept any other proposal. Emanuel Macron suggested to review the nuclear deal, in order to resolve all concerns regarding the Iranian missile program, which Tehran considers not part of the nuclear deal.

Iran main opposition group denounces regime’s deception in nuclear talks [Video]

Source: Iran NCR Youtube Channel

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), main Iranian opposition group created in Paris in 1981, has organized a press conference in Washington, in order to denounce Tehran’s deceptions in nuclear talks. Just to know, it is important to remember that: in 2002 the NCRI discovered the site of Natanz and identified the facility as a nuclear fuel fabrication plant. In December 2005, the NCRI shows the existence of the underground facility near the holy city of Qom. In 2009, the group revealed that Iran has build two additional sites in and near Tehran, in order to work on detonators for nuclear warheads. Recently, in February 2015, NCRI accused Iran of running a secret uranium enrichment site close to Tehran (so called Lavizan-3).

Few weeks ago, the NCRI has also organized a video briefing on Iran-North Korea cooperation on nuclear and ballistic missile programs (Video).

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While dealing with Obama, Iran unveils new cruise missile that can reach Europe…

Source: Defense-Update

Iran unveiled yesterday a new, long range surface-launched land attack cruise missile. The new missile called “Soumar” was presented yesterday to the Iranian Defense Minister, Brigadier general Hossein Dehqan. Unveiling the missile developed by Iranian scientists Dehqan said the new weapon ‘will increase Iran’s deterrence might’. The missile seems to be one of the variants of the ‘Meshkat’ cruise missile, announced by the director of the Iranian Defense Ministry’s Aerospace Organization, Brigadier General Mehdi Farahi three years ago. “Meshkat” cruise missile, which God willing will be unveiled soon, has a range of more than 2,000 kilometers.” Farahi told the Iranian media in 2012, “it will be the upper hand of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

One of the factors determining the missile’s range is likely to be the miniature turbofan. The original weapon delivered to Iran was powered by the Russia designed, Ukraine made R95-300 mini-turbofan, but in the mid 2000s, as  Russia transferred the production of critical systems to its industry, equipping its new production missiles Kh55 with TRDD-50 turbofans made by the Russian Saturn company. According to expert assessments, if the Iranians had access to the Russian engine or the original R95-300 produced in the Ukraine, the missile could reach an operational range of 2,000 km, carrying a warhead of 410kg weight. The strategic version used by Russian Air Force carries 200-250 Kt nuclear warhead. Russia is not likely to allow the export of such engines to equip foreign weapons programs, since it will be considered a violation of the MTCR regime. But Moscow agreed to supply such engines to power the Indian target drone ‘Lakshya’. However, the mini turbofans are believed to have also powered the Indian cruise missile Nirbhay on its maiden flight in October 2014.

An interesting capability introduced by the missile manufacturer ‘AGAT’ is the containerized version – Club K, enabling the launching of cruise missiles from ‘innocent looking’ cargo ships, rail cars or trucks, a practice the Iranians, Syrians and their Hezbollah proxy have practiced many times in the past.

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Beyond the bomb: the Near-Term Iran Missile Threat

Source: Extracts from The Gulf Military Balance, the missile and the nuclear dimension

Iran’s existing missile forces give it the capability to attack targets in the Gulf and near its border with conventionally armed long-range missiles and rockets, and Iran can attack targets in Israel, throughout the region, and beyond with its longest-range ballistic missiles…In the near-term, Iran would either be limited to the tactical use of shorter range systems as artillery against area targets, to volleys of shorter ranged missiles and rockets against nearby area targets (tactics it has not yet serious practiced), or to longer-range missile strikes designed more for psychological or “terror” purposes than military combat. The seriousness of even these threats would depend in part on Iran’s ability to launch rockets and missiles in salvos, and in “stacked threats” of different types that complicated the use of missile defenses and suppressive strikes…Iran could use conventionally or chemically armed missiles and long-range rockets as terror weapons, striking against large area targets like cities. It might escalate to the use of such systems because of a conventional war in the Gulf, in reaction to any military threat to its ruling regime, as a response to covert action against the state, or as a method of resolving domestic fissures.

Moreover, Iran’s missile and rocket forces may well become far more effective even if Iran does not get nuclear weapons. Today’s missile designs would be more effective if they could be equipped with conventional or chemical cluster munitions. Although they would still be limited by range-payload limits, “fusing” issues, and a lack of accuracy, and even substantial volley against area targets would cause more terror than ones capable of hitting and destroying key point target. If Iran is to make a major advance in lethality using missiles and rockets without nuclear weapons, it would have to make advances in two other areas: precision guidance and terminal homing and biological weapons. Iran has already said it is seeking to provide its missiles and rockets with precision guidance and terminal homing warheads and with countermeasures to ballistic missile defenses. It has also claimed to have shown it has a near precision strike capability, although satellite photos of the target area indicate it simulated missile hits by using explosive devices at the scene. Deploying chemical or biological warheads would give Iranian missile more lethality…Biological weapons can theoretically be as – or more – lethal that fission weapons and Iran has all of the needed technology.

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