Ukrainian Cruise Missiles Transported Via Russia to Iran =E2=80=94 Israel
Created: 21.12.2005 12:15 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:15 MSK, 23 hours 25
minutes ago
MosNews.com
Ukrainian cruise missiles with a range of 3,000 kilometers and capable
of carrying nuclear warheads have ended up in Iranian hands after being
transported via Russia, Israel=E2=80=99s Director of Military Intelligence
Major General Aharon Ze=E2=80=99evi (Farkash) said on Tuesday.
Ze=E2=80=99evi said that Iran had recently received 12 of the cruise
missiles. 18 such missiles were transported from Ukraine to Russia, of
which 12 had somehow managed to end up in Iranian hands. The other six
were received by China, Haaretz.com quoted Ze=E2=80=99evi.
The diplomatic pressure the international community has exerted on Iran
had delayed the Islamic state=E2=80=99s nuclear development plan by two
years, Ze=E2=80=99evi added.
Ze=E2=80=99evi, who was making his last appearance before the Knesset Forei=
gn
Affairs and Defense Committee, said that Iran was, nevertheless,
determined to secretly continue its bid to develop a nuclear bomb.
He also said that today Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear aspirations constitute a real
threat to western countries.
According to the military intelligence chief, there are growing fears
that Palestinian terror groups would smuggle into the Gaza Strip
weapons, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles as well as
Katyusha rockets. The introduction of such weapons in the conflict
would break the existing weapon-balance, Ze=E2=80=99evi said.
Terror groups are making every effort to get such weapons into the
Strip, he said, that being despite the great efforts the Palestinian
and Egyptian security forces are putting into preventing it.
The Israel Defense Forces must prepare for such a possibility, he said.
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