In
this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency
(ISNA), an Iranian Shahab-3 missile is launched during military
maneuvers outside the city of Qom, Iran, Tuesday, June 28, 2011 (photo credit: AP/ISNA, Ruhollah Vahdati)
The man whom Western intelligence agencies say
may very well be the head of Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program
was present as an observer last week when North Korea carried out a
critical nuclear test, The British Sunday Times reported.
According to the report Sunday, Mohsen
Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi very rarely leaves Iranian soil due to fear that
Israel’s Mossad will make an attempt on his life, following an alleged
pattern of previous assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi is currently pursuing
technology that would enable his country to assemble a nuclear warhead
compact enough to be fitted to the ballistic missile technology in its
possession, Western intelligence sources reportedly said...Continue reading...
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