FYI: Iran Special Weapons Guide (FAS Org)

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Link posted without comment- for general information only

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/index.html

Link to an interesting article evaluating Iran's military capabilities:

http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/fp/b19ch11.htm

Chapter 11


Assessing the Iranian Threat*

Geoffrey Kemp



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*Copyright © by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; reprinted by permission.


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Iran poses a number of threats to American interests in the Middle East, each requiring careful examination.1 Without help from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the US cannot protect the Persian Gulf from major threats. Yet, pushing such cooperation too far and too fast runs the risk of overloading the delicate political systems of the GCC states and plays into the hands of parties who bitterly oppose the GCC governments, including opposition groups within the kingdoms. Iranian threats include indirect and direct military challenges to the security of oil supplies and the GCC states; possible nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons programs; subversion of friendly regimes such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt; acts of terrorism against the regime’s opponents and secularists in other Muslim countries; and opposition to the Middle East peace process. It is useful to distinguish between a range of military threats, on the one hand, and political threats that relate more to subversion and terrorism, on the other. It is also important to distinguish short-term threats from those that could arise over a longer period of time.

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