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Air Force

Iran Found To Amass Key Substances For Ballistic Missiles Production: Report

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

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Iran is amassing materials such as tungsten copper and specialized aluminum and titanium sheets that are key to production of missiles, including long-range weapons, The Wall Street Journal reported. The report comes as Iran continues to flout world opinion and United Nations resolutions by producing nuclear materials that, with reprocessing, can be used to build nuclear weapons. Some leaders in the outgoing Bush administration fear Iran is just two to three years from developing nuclear weapons, and the technology to…

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Congress

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