Altermedia.info: Iran Ramping Up Missile Production (...and at this point in history, if they can't, they're probably workin' on it! // leigh)
VIENNA (AP)–Iran has ramped up its production of missiles capable of carrying atomic warheads, a key opposition figure said Thursday.
Providing what he said Thursday were secret details of those missile programs, Iranian opposition figure Alireza Jafarzadeh told The Associated Press that Iran had “significantly increased the production line” of its Shahab 3 missiles last year, and was now turning out 90 a year - more than four times its previous production rate.
The most advanced Shahab has a range of 1,900 kilometers (nearly 1,200 miles), he said. That is enough to target arch-foe Israel.
Working together with North Korean experts at the Hemmat Missile Industries complex in Tehran, Iranian engineers also were “70%” finished on prototype Ghadar 101 and Ghadar 110 missiles, which have a range of up to 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles), he said, putting central Europe within reach. These missiles also were “ready for launch” within 30 minutes, compared to several hours for the Shahab, he said. <...> http://ca.altermedia.info/guerre-en-irak-war-in-iraq/iran-ramping-up-missile-production_2519.html
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four - leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed."
-- John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska press, 1988) 9, Questia, 5 Mar. 2006 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101478486>