Location: Latitude 36° 18' North; longitude 59° 35' East; 730km east of Tehran; province of Khorasan
Primary Function: Rocket and solid-fuel missile engine manufacturing; missile testing.
Description and Activities:
The facility of Mashhad, located 730km east of Tehran in the province of Khorasan, manufactures rockets and solid-fuel missile engines. It is also a missile test site. On 20 February 2000, Iran tested the Shehab 3 from the Mashhad area. The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, supervised this test launch.
Key Sources: John Pike, "Mashhad,"<http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/facility/mashhad.htm>; "Shihab-3 Minus Lethal Warhead Viewed by Israeli Officials," Middle East Newsline (Jerusalem), 4 April 2000; "Mikhail Kirillin: Several U.S. Firms Engaged in Developing Missile Equipment Have Links with Iranians," Yadernyy Kontrol Dossier in Yadernyy Kontrol (Moscow), March-April 1998, No. 2, Vol. 38, pp. 37-43.
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