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Anonymous ID: 432757 Feb. 1, 2021, 9:42 p.m. No.12796797   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6802 >>6807 >>6844 >>6953 >>7217 >>7250

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/iran-launches-new-rocket-showing-advances-in-potential-missile-technology-11612214948

 

Iran tested a new rocket on Monday with improved technology that could be used in its missile program, its latest attempt to raise the stakes for the Biden administration ahead of potential negotiations over a new nuclear deal.

 

The new rocket, named Zuljanah, was developed under a government-backed program to send civilian satellites into orbit 310 miles above ground, according to a spokesman for the Iranian Defense Ministry’s Space Department. The technology is easily transferable to Iran’s military missile program run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, experts say.

 

The Zuljanah features a solid-fuel-propelled motor that is the largest yet exhibited by Iran. Motors propelled by solid fuel, rather than liquid, are a key component in intercontinental ballistic missiles, which the U.S. seeks to prevent Iran from developing.

 

“After tests…[it] will be ready to put operational satellites in orbit,” said Ahmad Hosseini of the Defense Ministry, according to the IRNA state news agency.

 

While Iran regularly tests new missile technology, Monday’s launch, which was broadcast on national television, was the first since President Biden took office.

 

Iran over the past 18 months has sought relief from U.S. sanctions—reimposed by the Trump administration after it withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal in 2018—by breaching key provisions in the accord. Tehran has stockpiled more low-enriched uranium than the deal allows, restarted uranium enrichment at 20% purity and announced that it would prepare production of uranium metal.

Anonymous ID: 432757 Feb. 1, 2021, 9:43 p.m. No.12796807   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6824 >>6844 >>6953 >>7217 >>7250

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Mr. Biden has said he intends to rejoin the nuclear deal as a basis for follow-on discussions. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in January said Iran’s missile program isn’t up for negotiation. Washington and Tehran both publicly say that the other party must come back into compliance first.

 

Until negotiations start, Iran is racing to build leverage and dissuade any American ambition to curtail its conventional-missile program, according to Fabian Hinz, an independent open-source intelligence analyst with expertise in missiles.

 

“This was a very, very clear message by the Iranians that they are advancing and that they can build longer-range stuff if they want to,” he said. “They want to show that, if you put pressure on our missiles, we can react.”

 

While Iran says breaches of the nuclear deal are easily reversible if the U.S. comes back into compliance and lifts economic sanctions on Iran, the knowledge acquired in the process isn’t, experts say. The same goes for advances made in Iran’s missile technology.

Anonymous ID: 432757 Feb. 1, 2021, 10:27 p.m. No.12797056   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7150

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The film is an adaptation of a 1991 Tom Clancy novel in which terrorists detonate a nuclear bomb at a Super Bowl in Denver between the Minnesota Vikings and San Diego Chargers. In the book, most of Denver was destroyed. The movie version is set in Baltimorealthough the game action was shot at Olympic Stadium in Montrealand the blast kills thousands.

 

Even though the filmmakers say the rough cut was assembled before Sept. 11, many people consider the subject matter all too real.

 

The specter of terrorism caused the NFL to take unprecedented measures at this year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans. Fans, vendors, media, VIPs, and even players had to pass through metal detectors and were subject to pat-downs. Concrete barriers and eight-foot-high fences were erected around the Superdome, and streets were closed around the venue. A no-fly zone was in effect over the stadium, and nearly 2,000 police and security personnel were in attendance. There were no incidents of note.

 

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