Iran to Improve Shahab 3 Missile, Official Says

Iran plans to further improve its Shahab 3 ballistic missile, which has an estimated range of 2,000 kilometers, a senior Iranian official said today (see GSN, Oct. 6).

“Very certainly we are going to improve our Shahab 3 missile and all of our other missiles,” said Nasser Maleki, deputy director of Iran’s aerospace industry organization.

Maleki would not comment, though, on whether Iran plans to develop a longer-range Shahab 4 missile. “We are at the level of the Shahab 3,” he said (Agence France-Presse/SpaceWar.com, Oct. 7).

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