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Russia's double game on Iran Russia might have voted with the United States at the International Atomic Energy Agency against Iran. But Moscow has sought to ensure that Iran becomes a nuclear power capable of striking Europe and the United States over the next few years. Russia has been quietly supplying Iran with expertise and components for intermediate- and long-range missiles, Western intelligence sources said. Moscow has been looking away as Russian military officers transferred technology and blueprints of intercontinental ballistic missiles. One Russian officer was reportedly provided Iran with technology of the Soviet-made SSN6, a submarine-launched ballistic missile. The SSN6 was deployed in 1969 and has a range of about 5,500 kilometers, sufficient to cover every part of Europe. The technology and blueprints are regarded as vital to help in Iran's Shihab-5 and Shihab-6 programs. The Shihab-5 was intended to reach 5,500 kilometers and the Shihab-6, with a range of 10,000 kilometers, to strike the United States. Iran's longest-range operational missile has been the Shihab-3. Also enhanced with Russian technology, it has a range of 2,000 kilometers. Russia has also sold the technology to North Korea, an expert in reverse engineering. North Korea has been helping the Iranians use the Russian blueprints to develop a missile based on the BM-25, a cruise missile with a range of 3,500 kilometers. "Iran already has missiles that could strike Russia," an intelligence source said. "The Russians figure, 'why should we be the only superpower target of Iran?' So, Moscow has been helping Iran redirect any potential missile threat toward the West." -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
