{"id":166110,"date":"2025-02-05T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=166110"},"modified":"2025-02-03T13:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T18:46:57","slug":"i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166110","title":{"rendered":"Iran nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81591 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Iran-Zolfaqar-missiles-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Iran-Zolfaqar-missiles-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Iran-Zolfaqar-missiles-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Iran-Zolfaqar-missiles-481x333.jpg 481w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Iran-Zolfaqar-missiles.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In probably the least shocking item I have seen since hostages confirmed Hamas was using hospitals to hold them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/israeli-intel-indicates-hamas-held-hostages-new-gaza-hospital-un-health-agency-criticized-inaction\">Fox News<\/a>, or that UNRWA workers were actively working with Hmas \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-68119268\">BBC<\/a> ,\u00a0 or even that Hamas was skimming UN funds\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/24\/nyregion\/hamas-gaza-aid-unrwa-lawsuit.html\">NY Times\u00a0 <\/a>, we see from\u00a0 Iran:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A covert agency within Iran\u2019s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) tasked with the development of Iran\u2019s nuclear program has been found to be operating out of top sites used by Iran\u2019s space program.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital has learned that according to information obtained by sources embedded in the Iranian regime, evidence collected over several months shows that Iran\u2019s chief nuclear development agency, the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPDN), has been operating out two locations previously recognized as space development and launch sites.<\/p>\n<p>These reports, compiled from dozens of sources and thoroughly validated, indicate that in recent months, SPND has intensified its efforts to construct nuclear warheads at both the Shahrud and Semnan sites,&#8221; the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a report exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">One of the sites, the Shahroud\u00a0Space\u00a0Center, which has been suspected of being used by Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to develop intermediate-range ballistic missiles, is also now reported to have &#8220;large-scale&#8221; SPND personnel operating out of it \u2013 a move Jafarzadeh described as a &#8220;significant red flag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">The Shahroud\u00a0Space\u00a0Center caught global attention in 2022 when Iran announced it had developed the Ghaem-100 rocket \u2013 which could be used to send low-orbit satellites into space, but also as a ballistic missile with a range of nearly 1,400 miles, greater that what was previously achieved with the Qased rocket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">But according to sources familiar with activity at the Shahroud\u00a0Space\u00a0Center &#8220;SPND&#8217;s experts are working on a nuclear warhead for the Ghaem100 solid-fuel missile with a range of more than 3,000 kilometers [more than 1,800 miles] and a mobile launch pad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">The second site, located in the northern city of Semnan, the Imam Khomeini Spaceport \u2013 Iran\u2019s first spaceport \u2013 made international headlines just last month when Tehran launched its heaviest-ever rocket into space carrying a payload of roughly 660 pounds, relying on a liquid propellant.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/irans-covert-nuclear-agency-found-operating-out-of-top-space-program-launch-sites\/ar-AA1ybSC2\">Fox News via MSN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">And all this time we\u00a0 have been told Iran is not working on nuclear weapons and delivery systems. According to that last article, they have over 400 pounds of 60% pure processed uranium. Takes about 92 pounds for a nuke according to the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In probably the least shocking item I have seen since hostages confirmed Hamas was using hospitals &hellip; <a title=\"Iran nukes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166110\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran nukes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166111,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166110\/revisions\/166111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}