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Suspect Missile Facility Near Tabriz, Iran

Remember that crazy, though possibly true BM-25 story? One detail in the story, originally published by Bild, was that BND had identified a suspect facility near Tabriz.

Reader Allen Thomson noticed that someone recently ordered a Digital Globe Image of Tabriz and found what looks a lot like a missile facility to me at 38.252 N, 46.128 E.

Update: I think this is the text in German:

Bei Täbriz, 600 Kilometer nordwestlich von Teheran, ortete die deutsche Aufklärung eine stationäre Starteinrichtung für den Test von silogestützten Raketen (Entfernung Berlin ca. 2900 Kilometer). Im Klartext: Der „Irre von Teheran“ könnte von dort Ziele in ganz Deutschland erreichen!

If anyone can find the original text, I’d be indebted.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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