Iranian officials demanded that the Islamic Republic begin developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in a letter addressed to Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, the reformist Iranian newspaper Asriran reported on Wednesday. A total of 85 officials were reported to have penned the letter, which expressed condolences to Khamenei on his father’s death and cast doubt on the trustworthiness of Washington in ceasefire negotiations, asserted that the parliamentarians would “continue to support our military forces and defense industries until the day comes when the range of our missiles reaches the offices of the killers of the deputy of the Imam of the Age (Muhammad al-Mahdi, the twelfth and final Imam) and the martyred Khamenei.
“We believe that to end the cycle of terror by the so-called ‘Al-Epstein,’ who adhere to no moral, human, or international principles, it is not merely an eye for an eye; rather, the enemy must know that it will be a head for an eye.”
Experts from the Institute for the Study of War interpreted this as a call to develop missiles capable of reaching the United States. The Islamic Regime has often referred to Israel and the United States as the “Epstein Regime” as part of its propaganda campaign to affiliate Jerusalem and Washington with the crimes of the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, a former advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, told The Jerusalem Post that it has long been within the Islamic regime’s goal to develop a missile capable of reaching the US.
He warned that should Tehran walk away with favorable financial terms in the ongoing ceasefire talks with Washington, the Islamic regime would have the financial capacity and longevity to eventually see this goal through. Iran’s ballistic missile stock was understood to have a maximum range of around 2,000 km, according to the regime’s own claims, with its longest-range systems being the Khorramshahr, Sejjil, and Shahab-3 missiles. (Read More)
