Sunday Telegraph: the technology for creating ballistic missiles fell into Iran through Russia

Retired Russian military secretly helped Iran get technologies that allow you to create ballistic missiles. These missiles can carry nuclear warheads and are able to reach European capitals. About this with reference to sources in the Western special services is written by the British newspaper Sunday Telegraph .

The article appeared the day after the negotiations of US Secretary of State Condolizes Rice and the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, who just discussed the Iranian nuclear program. However, they could not come to an agreement.

According to the British publication, the Russians acted as intermediaries in a multimillion -dollar deal between Tehran and Pyongyang in 2003. The deal allowed Iran to receive a secret channel for the supply of super -secret missile technologies, which were delivered to the country through Russian territory.

Western intelligence services believe that Iran can complete the creation of a rocket with a radius of action 2200 km, that is, in the defeat zone there will be a majority of Europe. The missile will be able to carry a ammunition weighing 1.2 tons, which is enough to equip it with a nuclear warhead.

North Korea developed the Taepo Dong 2 missile, capable of impressing the West Coast of the United States from the SSN6 Soviet -made submarine. During modification, this rocket can be launched from a ground installation. This technology was provided by Iran with the help of Russia.

Russia provided Iran with instructions for use, drawings and equipment so that the rocket could be collected in the country. Liquid missile fuel hit Iran by sea. Russian experts were also sent to the country to help the creation of the Shahab 5 missile, which the Iranian authorities expect to put on combat duty by the end of the decade.

Sunday Telegraph notes that at the moment Iran has a Shahab 3 rocket with a radius of 800 km, which can reach Israeli.

According to the author of the article, Iran can use its nuclear program as a cover for work to create new weapons. This is what can explain the refusal of Tehran to suspend the work of enriching uranium and allow UN inspectors to their nuclear facilities.

The USA believes that Iran has been deceiving the world community for 18 years

The American Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said in an interview with the Air Force that over the past 18 years, Iran secretly develops nuclear weapons, misinforming the world community regarding its intentions.

According to Bolton, the official Tehran would like to get nuclear weapons in order to intimidate other countries of the Middle East, and possibly transferred to the terrorists.

“I think that the Iranians have been developing nuclear weapons until the age of 18,” said the American diplomat in the Newsnigth television program. “They were engaged in deception and hid their actions.”

“Now the main question is whether the world community is going to come to terms with the fact that Iran is violating its obligations under the agreement on non -proliferation of nuclear weapons,” continued Bolton. “With his lodge about his program, and with his intention to receive nuclear weapons, which can be delivered using ballistic missiles.”

Iran has repeatedly rejected the US alignment that he intends to produce nuclear weapons, emphasizing that the atomic program was necessary for him only to provide the country with energy. The representative of Iran said on Sunday that the country's authorities were not going to freeze the nuclear program.

Konstantin Kosachev: Sunday Telegraph information is wrong

The head of the International Committee of the State Duma, Konstantin Kosachev, is convinced that the publication in the English newspaper about the possible cooperation and mediation of Russia in the field of Iranian missile technology has nothing to do with reality.

“As a parliamentarian, I believe that the Russian competent authorities - the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Defense, the FSB and others should quickly and adequately respond to this publication in order to exclude the possibility of further promoting the insinuations spirals on this score. However, I have no doubt now: Russia could not cooperate with Iran and North Korea and, of course, did not do this,” - did not do this, ” Kosachev said in an interview with Interfax.

In his opinion, that such accusations regarding the possibility of illegal cooperation between former military specialists of Russia who have gone resigned with relevant specialists in the field of nuclear technology of Iran and North Korea are "nothing more than a journalistic version."

The deputy emphasized that it is necessary to clearly distinguish between journalistic investigations and official claims of international official organizations. “But there are no such official accusations against our address and, I am sure, since Russia is one of the most consistent and active participants in the control regime for non -proliferation of missile technologies,” Kosachev emphasized.

He noted that it was enough to look at the map in order to understand that the appearance of missiles of medium and more distant action, whether in North Korea or Iran, would primarily contradict his own Russian interests due to proximity to the borders of these states. "