DOD: Iran, With Foreign Help, Could Demonstrate ICBM By 2015

By Jason Sherman / April 23, 2013 at 8:30 PM
A new Pentagon assessment of Iran's military power maintains that Iran -- with "sufficient foreign assistance" -- could flight-test by 2015 an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the United States, reiterating a longstanding estimate of the U.S. intelligence community. An unclassified portion of the "Annual Report on Military Power of Iran," dated January 2013 and made available by the Pentagon today, also states that Iran is continuing to develop both the "technological capabilities applicable to nuclear weapons" and "ballistic...

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