Iran Unveils "Hypersonic Missile" to Beat Air Defenses as Tensions Rise with US - The Jewish Voice

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61% : Iran described the Fattah as being able to reach Mach 15 -- which is 15 times the speed of sound.
55% : In March, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to establish diplomatic ties, in a Chinese-brokered deal, representing a major breakthrough in the region, the report indicated.
51% : Detective Involved in Trump Prosecution Suspended for Contact with Michael CohenIran claimed on Tuesday that it had created a hypersonic missile capable of traveling at 15 times the speed of sound, adding a new weapon to its arsenal as tensions remain high with the United States over Tehran's nuclear program, the AP reported.
50% : Also on Tuesday, the AP reported that the U.S. said it is sanctioning a group of people and firms from Iran, China and Hong Kong associated with the development of Iran's ballistic missile program.
48% : On Monday, the AP reported that the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said that the International Atomic Energy Agency will "never politicize" its work in Iran.
48% :Netanyahu's comments came after a confidential report from the IAEA last week said that its investigators had closed off their investigation of traces of man-made uranium found at Marivan, near the city of Abadeh, about 525 kilometers (325 miles) southeast of Tehran, the AP reported.
47% : The new missile -- called Fattah, or "Conqueror" in Farsi -- was unveiled even as Iran said it would reopen its diplomatic posts on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia after reaching a détente with Riyadh following years of conflict.
47% : In a related development, the Tazpit Press Service reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the beginning of Sunday's weekly Cabinet meeting that the International Atomic Energy Agency's "surrender" to Iran is a "black mark" on the UN watchdog.
44% : According to Iran, the IAEA also closed a separate investigation into uranium particles found in the underground Fordow facility.
44% : Before Netanyahu's comments, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat said in a statement on Friday that the explanations provided by Iran for the presence of nuclear material at the Marivan site are "not reliable or technically possible," according to the AP report.
43% : Netanyahu also said that Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi returned from the US where they held high level discussions regarding Iran, TPS reported.
41% : In November, Hajizadeh initially claimed that Iran had created a hypersonic missile, without offering evidence to support it, the AP reported.
41% : He has said international diplomacy should be accompanied by a serious military option, and hinted that Israel would be prepared to strike Iran on its own if necessary.
40% : "If the Atomic Energy Agency becomes a political organization, its monitoring activities in Iran will have no meaning, nor will the reports it produces on Iran's nuclear activities have any meaning.
38% : "Regarding Iran - Iran continues to lie to the International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA.
38% : The lax conduct of the IAEA in the face of these failed excuses sends a message to the rulers of Iran that they are not required to pay any price for their violations and that they can continue to deceive the international community in their attempts to obtain nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said, as was indicated in the TPS report.
36% : This latest incident comes after a series of maritime incidents involving Iran following the U.S. unilaterally withdrawing from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers in 2018.
36% : The AP also reported that the suspected American seizure of the Suez Rajan, a tanker linked to a U.S. private equity firm believed to have been carrying sanctioned Iranian crude oil off Singapore, likely sparked Tehran to recently take the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Advantage Sweet.
34% : Information that unequivocally proved that Iran violates the inspection agreements and that it operates in the nuclear field for military purposes and not for innocent civilian purposes," the Prime Minister added, referring to the Mossad's 2018 theft of an entire archive of Iranian nuclear documents.
32% : "The excuses that Iran has provided in the years since then, for having nuclear material in prohibited places, these excuses are not only unreliable, they are not even technically possible.
30% : Analysts had repeatedly linked Marivan to a possible secret Iranian military nuclear program and accused Iran of conducting high-explosives tests there in the early 2000s, the report indicated.
27% : Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are also high amid months of anti-government protests in Iran and Western anger at Iran's export of attack drones to Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, the AP report stated.
26% :Saudi Arabia broke ties with Iran in 2016 after protesters invaded Saudi diplomatic posts in Tehran and the northeastern city of Mashhad during demonstrations triggered by the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and 46 others in the oil-rich Kingdom, the AP reported.
17% : Israel considers Iran to be its greatest enemy, and Netanyahu has repeatedly said that he wouldn't allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, as was reported by the AP.

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