Israel Defense:

In an interview given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S.-based Hudson Institute, Netanyahu confirmed that Iran is developing an intercontinental ballistic missile. It was the first time for an Israeli prime minister to make such a confirmation. A previous report by Israel Defense had warned of this. Such a missile is supposed to have a range of at least 5,500km to 10,000km.

As said previously, the first hint surfaced in 2011 with the death of Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, who was a central figure in the development of the Iranian missile program. Moghaddam was killed in a mysterious explosion in November 2011 while developing a large solid-fuel engine that, at the time, was not suitable for any known missile in Iran.

It should be mentioned that the nuclear archive that the Mossad brought from Iran included, at the time this article was written, very little material regarding development of the Iranian missiles, an essential component of the military nuclear program. One of the research institutes relying on the archive materials brought by the Mossad is the ISIS institute. So I asked the institute to explain why, until now, only materials on the nuclear program, not materials on missiles, have been leaked from the archive…

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