It has now reportedly been revealed that Iran is creating nuclear missiles with a 3,000-kilometer range using designs that North Korea sent to the Islamic government.
Details of Tehran’s covert uranium enrichment facilities have been made public by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which has also released information about the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) growing weapons programs.
According to the exiled opposition group, two locations disguised as satellite launch sites for communications have been used to expedite the development of nuclear warheads.
The regime’s nuclear weapons arm, the Organisation for Advanced Defence Research (SPND), is in charge of both of them.
At the first location, called the Shahrud missile station, located approximately 35 kilometers from the city of the same name, researchers from the SPND and IRGC Aerospace Force have been developing a nuclear warhead that can be attached to a 3,000-kilometer-range solid-fuelled rocket called the Ghaem-100.
With missiles of such range, Iran could send nuclear attacks from its territory all the way into Europe, including Greece, and even farther away at regional targets like Israel, Tehran’s bitterest adversary.
Additionally, the IRGC has stated that it will test more sophisticated Ghaem-105 rockets in the upcoming months.
In order to hide the regime’s purported nuclear missile program, the NCRI claims that earlier tests at the location were carried out as satellite launches because the rockets were referred to as “satellite carriers.”
Satellite photos reveal a sizable concrete platform where mobile launchers can shoot the rockets into the air.
In the vicinity, there are groups of buildings where the research is thought to be conducted.
At a second location, around 70 kilometers southeast of Semnan, Simorgh missiles—a weapon based on North Korean designs—are being developed.
The UNHA-1, an 18-meter-tall rocket built by North Korea that Pyongyang claims is a disposable rocket for transporting equipment into space, is comparable to the designs.
Much of the complex is subterranean to hide the activity from intelligence satellites that take pictures of the region.
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