Until a few days ago, the world believed (and Iran said) that Iran had no nuclear weapons and that the point of a new war would ostensibly be to prevent it from having them.
At the same time, the global consensus - also supported by Iran - was that its ICBM missile delivery system was limited to abut 2,000 km in reach.
A few days ago, to the surprise of all, Iran fired two ICBMs targeting the US/UK base at Diego Garcia that seemed capable of extending that attack range to about 4,000 km. This is interesting for two unrelated reasons: 1) Iran now, it turns out, can reach most of Europe:
And 2) if it had been testing such flights from Iran, they would have been detected and therefore known.
Here, for reasons quickly to be obvious, I will add a quote on these two launches from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation news site:
“Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei denied targeting the air base, after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte also said the alliance was unable to confirm the missile launches.”
So, where were these ICBMs tested?
One is tempted to call upon one word: satellites.
When we at SNS became the first source to perceive (and name) the CRINK (China, Russia, Iran & N. Korea) alliance, we noted the detection of Iran shipping missiles secretly in cargo ships to NK. Soon thereafter, we noted the remarkable and sudden improvements in both the NK missile program and the NK nuclear weapons program.
We asked then: Is Iran using North Korea as its missile and nuke testing site?
Today, given the sudden and mysterious appearance of 4500km ICBMs out of nowhere, on Iran’s behalf, we have to ask again: Is the NK Iran’s nuclear weapons and ICBM testing ground? Is some other country?
Here is a short video clip of Sir Richard Dearlove, the past head of MI6, in an interview with me, on this exact subject, at FiRe 2025:
For the full interview, go to:
In summary:
Has Iran has been testing its most advanced missiles in North Korea - and suddenly proved it by firing them last week?
Does Iran have nuclear weapons, also developed onsite in North Korea, sitting somewhere there or elsewhere?
AND, if so - what is the point of attacking the one place where these missiles and nukes are not?
Your comments are always welcome,
Mark Anderson
Chair and CEO
Strategic News Service LLC
