United Press International – A senior Israeli intelligence officer said Tuesday Iran has recently acquired 12 long-range cruise missiles with the capability of carrying nuclear warheads.
Maj.-Gen. Aharon Ze’evi told a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee the missiles have a range of more than 1,800 miles, and said they had originated in a batch of 18 missiles shipped from Ukraine to Russia. He said the other six ended up in China, the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz reported.
In his last Knesset briefing before stepping down, Ze’evi did not indicate where the intelligence on the missiles came from. But he said diplomatic pressure from the international community had delayed Iran’s nuclear development plan by two years.