Top Iranian General Threatens Israel with "Defensive" ICBM's - By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz - http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/60665/top-iranian-general-threatens-israel-with-defensive-icbms-middle-east/#c6wpwwhjhucSDZZw.97
"If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked." (Proverbs 29:12)
The Iranian Army's Chief of Staff announced plans to upgrade their missile program, despite threats of renewed sanctions, and accompanied his statement with an implied threat to Israel.
Major General Ataollah Salehi was quoted by the Tasneem news agency as saying, "Iran's future missile program will become more precise and stronger, and these are deterrent weapons that pose no threat to our neighbors and friends, but are against enemies."
"They are rather a threat to the enemies of this establishment. Israel should fully realize the meaning of this concept," he added.
Iran was prohibited from conducting ballistic missile tests under UN Security Council resolution 1929, passed five years ago. This was valid until the recent nuclear deal went into effect January 16, when another UN Security Council resolution, passed immediately after the nuclear deal, went into effect, The revised resolution calls upon Iran to refrain for up to eight years from any work on ballistic missiles designed to carry nuclear weapons.
When asked by Tasneem reporters about the UN resolution and the possibility of sanctions, he explained that Iran will not be bound to comply with those possible resolutions and the Armed Forces will not care about them.
In October, Iran tested an Emad medium range ballistic missile, which UN sanctions monitors confirmed is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. This was followed one month later by yet another ballistic missile test, both of which were in direct violation of the UN resolution. Iran also publicized 14 underground "missile cities".
In response to the missile tests, in December, US President Barack Obama threatened to implement new sanctions on Iran's missile program. A day later Rouhani threatened that Tehran would accelerate the development of its arsenal. One day after Rouhani's threat, President Obama announced he would delay the new sanctions.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani responded by ordering the Defense Ministry to continue production of missiles needed by the country's Armed Forces "more quickly and seriously".
The US has since implemented sanctions on 11 entities and individuals connected to the Iranian missile program, while, at the same time, lifting sanctions connected with Iran's nuclear program.
This is not the first time a high-ranking Iranian official has taunted the US over missile restrictions. In response to the threats of US sanctions last month, General Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, said to Fars new agency:
"We tell the Americans that we will further expedite enhancement of our missile capabilities as long as they massacre the Palestinian children, as long as they bury Yemen's oppressed children in their houses, as long as they displace the Muslim nation of Syria, as long as they attack the houses of the Pakistanis, as long as they occupy the Islamic lands and as long as they support the Zionist regime to bomb Lebanon, Palestine and Syria."
Satellites Show Mystery Construction at Iran's Top-Secret Military Site - Kimberly Dozier - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/08/satellites-show-mystery-construction-at-iran-s-top-secret-military-site.html
A series of images, taken from space, show furious construction at a key Iranian facility. Was it to hide nuclear weapons work?
Newly released satellite images of Iran's top-secret Parchin military complex reveal that even as Iran was working to negotiate a nuclear deal, it was apparently working to hide its atomic work of the past and hedge its bets for the future.
Forecasting site Stratfor.com says the images published Monday show Iran building a tunnel into a heavily guarded mountain complex inside the Parchin facility, some 20 miles southeast of Tehran, while also working to erase signs of alleged high-explosive testing at another area on the site.
"We're not saying they're cheating on the nuclear deal," Stratfor analyst Sim Tack told The Daily Beast. "The images show Iran was going through the motions to hide what it's done before, and it is still...developing facilities that the IAEA may or may not have access to," Tack said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The progression of satellite images tracking construction at Parchin from 2012 to 2015 show how Iran's leaders apparently worked to keep regime hardliners happy by moving forward with weapons programs, even as the leadership worked to erase signs of an illegal nuclear weapons program, Tack said.
The satellite images appear to show new paving around the building that was alleged to be a test site for high-energy explosive charges used to detonate a nuclear weapon. Comparing satellite images from 2010 to one taken this year, Tack points out that the area has been paved, and plants and trees surrounding it removed and the soil scraped-all steps one would take to hide the radioactive fallout of nuclear weapons testing.
The IAEA sent a team to inspect the site last fall, one of the final steps up to the adoption of a deal that will give the country tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief.
"In September, IAEA Director General [Yukiya] Amano visited the inside of the suspected explosives test chamber building, and found it had been emptied," said Andy Weber, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs. He added that in his opinion, Stratfor's analysis "tracked well with the photos."
While the destruction of that controversial building has been reported before, Tack said the publication of images of the near-simultaneous construction of the tunnel entrance to another part of the complex is new.
"The imagery showed they were working on a tunnel entrance within the Parchin complex...and it looks like it's complete," Tack said. A 2014 image Stratfor did not release showed construction equipment outside tunnel entrance.
"They were still going forward with that construction during the talks," he said.
The mysterious subterranean complex could be part of Iran's ballistic missile program that triggered new U.S. sanctions in January, even as the nuclear sanctions were being lifted. The U.S. first detected that Iran was testing missile engines at the site in 1997.
Parchin was also the site of a large explosion in 2014 that the Iranian government never explained.
"It could have come from a test of rocket fuel or conventional warheads," Tack said.
Whatever's hidden beneath that mountain, the IAEA didn't get a look at it last September, he said.
"There are places where nobody knows what's going on," he said.
The IAEA declined to comment on the new satellite photos.
The Iran's U.N. Mission did not respond to requests for comment.
Iran has dismissed questions about suspicious construction at Parchin before. The Iranian official news agency IRNA reported that when IAEA chief Amano inspected the facility, he "visited construction works at Parchin, about which there are some irrelevant claims."
Obama administration officials would not comment on what the photos show, but insisted that IAEA inspectors can check it out if they see fit.
A senior Obama administration official said the nuclear deal, known by the cumbersome acronym JCPOA, for Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, "means the IAEA will have the access it needs to any suspicious location going forward. Such transparency will ensure that these past activities will not occur again, and if they do, that they will be quickly detected."
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to defend a deal that is described as the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy.
Ignoring Obama, Iran upgrades its nuclear-capable Emad missile - By Ari Yashar - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207825#.Vry9-zbSkaG
Flaunting sanctions, Iran's DM says update of nuclear rockets able to hit Israel coming soon, Russian S-300 delivery in next 2 months.
In open defiance of recent US sanctions on Iran's ballistic missile program, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan on late Tuesday told local media that Tehran will soon be rolling out an upgrade of its nuclear-capable medium-range Emad missiles.
The "next generation of Emad with improved precision" will be unveiled in the next Iranian year which starts on March 20, Dehghan said as cited by the semi-official Fars News Agency.
Emad is said to have a 1,700 kilometer range, putting Israel and much of eastern Europe squarely in its sights.
"The missile is being mass-produced but its precision-striking power will improve and its second version will be unveiled next year," Dehghan added. He went on to claim the missile was not a violation of the nuclear deal or UN sanctions because "we will never use a nuclear warhead (on it)."
In light of an Iranian Emad test on October 10, in breach of UN sanctions, US President Barack Obama's administration in January announced it was leveling sanctions on Iran's missile program - sanctions which Iran promptly vowed to defy. Iran in January publicly revealed its 14 underground "missile towns," with the latest facility being shown on Iranian media as convoys of the nuclear-capable Emad missiles were transferred in.
Dehghan also announced that Iran is to receive the Russian S-300 air defense system within the next two months, a troubling development given the advanced system's ability to shoot down missiles as well as jets.
The delivery has been blocked under Western pressure since 2010, given that it is in breach of UN sanctions. But now in the wake of the controversial nuclear deal Moscow is set to deliver the advanced missile system.
According to the Iranian defense minister Tehran and Moscow are also engaged in negotiations on a sale of the Russian Sukhoi-30 fighter jets.
"We have even decided on the number of Sukhoi-30 fighter jets that we want to buy," said Dehghan.
In a last announcement, he said Iran has designed and is testing a new tank called the "Karrar," which he claimed is on par with the Russian T-90. The new tank comes after plans to buy the Russian tank were canceled, according to Dehghan because Iran now has the capabilities to build a similar tank on its own.
"The defense industry designed and built the new battle tank from scratch. If not better, it's still as deadly as the Russian T-90," he claimed.
Following the controversial nuclear deal last July, Iran has shown an openly hostile stance to the US and continued to press its military development.
Critics of the nuclear deal note that Iran will be allowed to inspect its own covert nuclear sites such as Parchin, and likewise the leading state sponsor of terror can simply wait for the limitations on its nuclear program to expire under the deal in 15 years and then build a nuclear weapon.
US Secretary of State John Kerry in January admitted that part of the roughly $150 billion nuclear sanction windfall received by Iran will go to terror.
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