29/11/2010 11:07
WikiLeaks: Iran has advanced missiles that can strike Europe
Iran is believed to have received missiles from North Korea that can strike Western Europe and Moscow, RIA Novosti reports citing New York Times referring to WikiLeaks materials.
The missiles, based on Russian technologies, are far more advanced than those which the US said Iran had.
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.