Iran’s military commander publicly acknowledged Monday that his country had obtained missiles from North Korea during its war with Iraq but no longer needs Pyongyang’s assistance.
“The truth is that during the war, we had Scud B and Scud C missiles,” Yahya Rahim Safavi, chief commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, told Al Alam TV. Safavi said that We have received these from foreign countries like North Korea, but 17 years after the war, we were able to design all of these pieces and even their fuel,” the commander said. The missile trade between North Korea and Iran has been widely known in intelligence communities for a long time, but it is rare that Iranian officials publicly admit to such a trade.
# posted by Free_Iran_Now : Tuesday, November 07, 2006