Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted October 26 Diamond Member Share Posted October 26 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Exclusive-Satellite photos show ******* hit Iran missile fuel-mixing facilities, researchers say By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Commercial satellite imagery showed that ******** airstrikes hit buildings during an ******* on Saturday that Iran used for mixing solid fuel for ballistic missiles, according to separate assessments by two ********* researchers. The judgments were reached by David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector who heads the Institute for Science and International Security research group, and Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst at CNA, a Washington think tank. They told Reuters separately that ******* struck Parchin, a massive military complex near Tehran. ******* also hit Khojir, according to Eveleth, a sprawling missile production site near Tehran. Reuters reported in July that Khojir was undergoing massive expansion. Eveleth said the ******** strikes may have “significantly hampered Iran’s ability to mass produce missiles.” The ******** military said three waves of ******** jets struck missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran early on Saturday in retaliation for Tehran’s Oct. 1 barrage of more than 200 missiles against *******. Iran’s military said the ******** warplanes used “very light warheads” to strike border radar systems in the provinces of Ilam, Khuzestan and around Tehran. Eveleth said that an image from Planet Labs, a commercial satellite firm, showed that an ******** strike destroyed two buildings in Khojir where solid fuel for ballistic missiles was mixed. The buildings were enclosed by high dirt berms, according to the image reviewed by Reuters. Such structures are associated with missile production and are designed to stop a blast in one building from detonating combustible materials in nearby structures. Planet Labs imagery of Parchin showed that ******* destroyed three ballistic missile solid fuel mixing buildings and a warehouse, he said. Albright said he reviewed low-resolution commercial satellite imagery of Parchin that appeared to show that an ******** strike damaged three buildings, including two in which solid fuel for ballistic missiles was mixed. He did not identify the commercial firm from which he obtained the images. The buildings, he said, are located about 350 yards from a facility once involved in what the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and U.S. intelligence say was a comprehensive nuclear weapons development program that Iran shuttered in 2003. Iran denies having such a program. “******* says they targeted buildings housing solid-fuel mixers,” Eveleth said. “These industrial mixers are hard to make and export-controlled. Iran imported many over the years at great expense, and will likely have a hard time replacing them.” With a limited operation, he said, ******* may have struck a significant ***** against Iran’s ability to mass-produce missiles and made it more difficult for any future Iranian missile ******* to pierce *******’s missile defenses. “The strikes appear to be highly accurate,” he said. Iran has the Middle East’s largest missile arsenal and supplied missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine, and to Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, according to U.S. officials. Tehran and Moscow deny that Russia has received Iranian missiles. Planet Labs imagery reviewed earlier this year by Eveleth and Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey showed major expansions at Khojir and the Modarres military complex near Tehran that the pair assessed were for boosting missile production, Reuters reported. Three senior Iranian officials confirmed that conclusion. (Reporting by Jonathan Landay; Editing by Alistair Bell) This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #ExclusiveSatellite #photos #show #******* #hit #Iran #missile #fuelmixing #facilities #researchers This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/154639-exclusive-satellite-photos-show-israel-hit-iran-missile-fuel-mixing-facilities-researchers-say/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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