General Killed in Iran Blast 'Was Working on Missiles'
An Iranian general killed in a massive explosion at a munitions base outside the capital on November 12 was working on an intercontinental missile, his brother told a government-run newspaper.
General Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam died while working on a "project related to intercontinental ballistic missiles," Mohammad Tehrani Moqaddam, a Revolutionary Guards commander, told Saturday's Iran newspaper.
The Guards have said the huge blast -- which also killed at least 35 other Guards members at the base, according to media reports -- was an accident, implicitly rejecting Western media speculation it might have been an covert Israeli or U.S. attack.
Mohammad Tehrani Moqaddam was quoted as saying that his brother's missile project "was in its final phase" and was "completely hi-tech and secret." He said he believed the project would still be successfully completed.
Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam was known as a key figure in the Revolutionary Guards' ballistic missile program.
Officials in Tehran said he founded the program after becoming an artillery specialist in the 1980s, during the Iraq-Iran war.
The chief of staff of Iran's armed forces, General Hassan Firouzabadi, said last Wednesday the base was being used in the production of an unspecified "experimental product" that could be used against the United States or Israel.
Firouzabadi said the development of the project had been delayed by "two weeks" because of the blast.
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Congratulations on the elemination of yet another terrorist. The world is now a bit safer. The nose is tightining Hassouna, time to fly to Tehran
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Good Riddence one less terrorist to worry about! More however needs to be done from covert operations in taking out the criminal Iranian regime's most active members to crippling of nuclear weapons sites to supporting the Free Iranian diaspora in toppling the criminal regime. Most urgently is a massive air strikes with thousands of tons of amuniation dropped on the Nuclear reactors and other sites in Tehran and most importantly Qom where all the terrorist filth is Head Quartered.... Every one in the free world is welcome to chip in with new ideas and resources... The Gulf countries have to lead the charge on this one, for they are on the front line with the Criminal Iranian expansionist plague of a regime. The time to act is NOW!!!
well not very promising if he crated the hizb missile... as it blew in his own face!!!1