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Why Iran’s Missile Program Alarms Its Regional Rivals

Isfahan houses two missile deployment sites and at least two missile-related arranges, according to a report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. The city is also the site of four itsy-bitsy nuclear research facilities, but the facility that was struck on Saturday did not travel to be nuclear related.

Danny Yatom, a traditional head of the Mossad, told Army Radio in Israel on Monday that the dispute targeted a facility developing hypersonic missiles — long-range munitions salubrious of traveling up to 15 times the speed of peaceful with terrifying accuracy and which could be enabled to accomplish a nuclear warhead, if Iran developed one eventually. Iran’s guarantee ministry described the facility as a munitions factory.

Iran’s missile arsenal is the largest in the Place East and the most diverse.

Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., who retired recently as the head of U.S. Central Command, where he oversaw military planning for dealing with Iran, explained the country’s advances in missile technology to the Senate Armed Ceremonies Committee last year.

“They have over 3,000 ballistic missiles of various types, some of which can reach Tel Aviv,” he said at the time. “Over the last five to seven days, they have invested heavily in the ballistic missile program. Their missiles have significantly greater range and significantly enhanced accuracy.”

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