Iran's Subterranean Missile Factories
From "The Message in the Missiles," by Alireza Jafarzadeh, Fox News, reprinted Front Page Magazine, located 19 miles southeast of Tehran. The "MEK" is the Mujahedin-e Khalq, an Iranian rebel group.
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This is a description of Iran's secret missile factories in the Parchin Military Complex, which appears to have been built on plans supplied by and with the assistance of North Korean experts:
In September 2005, MEK provided more details about Iran’s missile operations in the secret tunnels associated with the Parchin Military Complex, a site 19 miles southeast of Tehran. A few weeks later the group was able to provide new information about the massive size and operations of the regime's tunnel complexes.
Accessible only by military roads, the largest tunnel complex is beneath the mountains of the Khojir region, just east of Tehran. This is where Movahed Industries, housed in the largest tunnel in the Khojir complex, builds the main body, does the final assembly, and warehouses the final product. This tunnel is about 1,000 meters long and 12 meters wide. Inside are six forklike, 500 meter extensions which extends from deep inside the central area of Khojir to the Bar Jamali Mountain.
The eyewitness accounts of the Iranian opposition sources inside Iran describe this tunnel as an underground city, complete with its own firefighting system, steam boilers for an independent heating system, air conditioning, water pumps, and a water-resistant electrical system.
Security measures include codenames for the industries that work on various aspects of the program. For example, Nori Industries, which builds the warhead and is the most secretive part of the program, is known as "8500."
The Khojir complex also contains dozens of other well-equipped tunnels that vary in length from 150 to 300 meters and contain more industries and warehouses in which missiles are kept. Among these is Bakeri Industries Group, whose five facilities in the Khojir complex produce surface-to-surface missiles, including the Iran-designed Fateh A-110, Nazeat, and Zolqadr. Fateh was among the missiles the Iranian regime fired last week.
Does this sound like a small investment, toward a goal from which the Iranians can be easily dissuaded by pleas, bribes and sanctions? It seems from this that the Iranians are terribly serious about developing a strategic nuclear missile capability, which they can use at the very least to threaten the rest of the world, or (if they are serious about their own theology), to attack.
It is obvious that such a facility can only be destroyed by means of (1) long-term bombardment with heavy bunker-buster bombs, of the kind possessed only by the United States; (2) a strike by a ground-penetrating tactical nuclear weapon, of the kind possessed only by the United States, or (3) a ground operation, in an environment of overwhelming military superiority on the point of the attackers, which would only be possible to the military forces of the United States.
This is far beyond what a one-off Israeli attack could hope to demolish.
For the sake of the whole world, America must attack Iran.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1B6D7169-0F34-445C-8F0B-62F9046EC7E4
This is a description of Iran's secret missile factories in the Parchin Military Complex, which appears to have been built on plans supplied by and with the assistance of North Korean experts:
In September 2005, MEK provided more details about Iran’s missile operations in the secret tunnels associated with the Parchin Military Complex, a site 19 miles southeast of Tehran. A few weeks later the group was able to provide new information about the massive size and operations of the regime's tunnel complexes.
Accessible only by military roads, the largest tunnel complex is beneath the mountains of the Khojir region, just east of Tehran. This is where Movahed Industries, housed in the largest tunnel in the Khojir complex, builds the main body, does the final assembly, and warehouses the final product. This tunnel is about 1,000 meters long and 12 meters wide. Inside are six forklike, 500 meter extensions which extends from deep inside the central area of Khojir to the Bar Jamali Mountain.
The eyewitness accounts of the Iranian opposition sources inside Iran describe this tunnel as an underground city, complete with its own firefighting system, steam boilers for an independent heating system, air conditioning, water pumps, and a water-resistant electrical system.
Security measures include codenames for the industries that work on various aspects of the program. For example, Nori Industries, which builds the warhead and is the most secretive part of the program, is known as "8500."
The Khojir complex also contains dozens of other well-equipped tunnels that vary in length from 150 to 300 meters and contain more industries and warehouses in which missiles are kept. Among these is Bakeri Industries Group, whose five facilities in the Khojir complex produce surface-to-surface missiles, including the Iran-designed Fateh A-110, Nazeat, and Zolqadr. Fateh was among the missiles the Iranian regime fired last week.
Does this sound like a small investment, toward a goal from which the Iranians can be easily dissuaded by pleas, bribes and sanctions? It seems from this that the Iranians are terribly serious about developing a strategic nuclear missile capability, which they can use at the very least to threaten the rest of the world, or (if they are serious about their own theology), to attack.
It is obvious that such a facility can only be destroyed by means of (1) long-term bombardment with heavy bunker-buster bombs, of the kind possessed only by the United States; (2) a strike by a ground-penetrating tactical nuclear weapon, of the kind possessed only by the United States, or (3) a ground operation, in an environment of overwhelming military superiority on the point of the attackers, which would only be possible to the military forces of the United States.
This is far beyond what a one-off Israeli attack could hope to demolish.
For the sake of the whole world, America must attack Iran.