Special Report: Inside Iran’s secret project to produce aluminium powder for missiles

FILE PHOTO: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009. REUTERS/Caren Firouz

Reuters reviewed more than a dozen documents relating to the aluminium powder project and people involved, dating from 2011 to 2018. One is a letter addressed to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from a Revolutionary Guards commander whose brother has been described by the Iranian state as the father of Iran’s missile programme.

The Revolutionary Guards oversee Iran’s missile programme. Its public relations office didn’t respond to questions when contacted by phone for this article. Mohammad Tehrani Moghadam did not respond to requests for comment. The offices of Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani also did not respond to enquiries.

The United Nations has placed restrictions on Iran’s activity related to ballistic missile activity capable of delivering nuclear weapons. A spokesman said it wasn’t clear whether the aluminium powder activities revealed by Reuters would breach those restrictions. Jose Luis Diaz, spokesman for the U.N.

Due to its explosive qualities, aluminium powder is also a key ingredient in solid-fuel propellants used to launch rockets and missiles. When mixed with material containing oxygen, a vast amount of energy is released. By 2011, the Jajarm facility was being developed, according to Amir Moghadam and two of the documents he shared with Reuters.

Ghasemi did not respond to requests for comment. Hassan Tehrani Moghadam, the deceased former head of the Revolutionary Guards missile programme, is not related to Amir Moghadam. The late general’s brother, Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Tehrani Moghadam, could not be reached for comment.IAC also held talks with a Chinese company about obtaining equipment, according to the letters Reuters reviewed.

GEE...DIDNT OBAMA HAVE OBSERVERS IN IRAN, KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT ? WHY. YES...YES HE DID! THEN 'SOMEBODY' DECIDED TO STICK HIS IGNORANT ORANGE NOSE IN THINGS HE DIDNT UNDERSTAND... .

Is this 'aluminium powder' aluminum oxide? As in the general material used to make aluminium? One of the most common metals we use today? Or is this powder different?

When Trump pulled out of the deal..he pulled out of any claim to give a shit as well. Nuke up Iran. Join the nuclear club and be free from slavery.

We can all thank Obama and the Democrats for this gesture of brotherly love....

The West should not worry. What Iran copies will fail. Do you remember the missiles fired from Iran towards Syria that fell anywhere from Iran to Iraq.

why to create more weapons?

This country has some of the best minds, but also some of the craziest criminals..

Using money provided by the Obama administration.

This is a slap on the faces of those who objected the American step to cancel the Iran nuclear deal

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What joy!...look out for “Houthis” using this newfound capability to their advantage (coming soon, to a proxy war theatre, near you)

guess who helped Iran... Russis? CCP?

so what, why is this news

Oh no.

Oh okay, the world will take your word for it.... And your “death to Israel and America” comments and rallies?

Its a toss up as to who is more untruthful-Iran or China.

According to dark web operatives in the area Iran is far beyond what the world intelligence agencies believe, they just don't have the balls to show it in a test that would expose their program. EU Dark web has many covert agents from the middle east countries, I know several.

Not to worry; President Trump will put a stop to Iran's missile program. Look at beautiful job he did, putting an end to North Korea's missile....pro...gram.... Uhhhh, never mind.

In Islam, if they lie to defend their goals, it’s not a sin but also advised!!! So they don’t bother about lying to the World!

“I’m sorry. We don’t have time to worry about Iran. We’re too busy playing the fool.” ~Liberal America

Iran is evil and corrupt. But Trump's coronavirus policies are killing far more Americans than Iran ever will. COVIDIOTS COVID COVID__19

Israel has had nukes pointed at Tehran for decades. Why shouldn't Iran have defensive nukes? A balance of power keeps the peace.

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD Islamic Republic is not IRAN. This terrorist regime will destroy the whole world must be overthrown soon by Iranians. KingdomWithPahlavi

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD once the crazy mullahs have the bomb they won't back down best the other Arab nations start muscling COLRICHARDKEMP guyverhofstadt

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD Who will rule Iran one day.

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD Iran’s government is another ISIS who made it to power 41 years ago and the West supported it just to remove Shah! Now the same West is regretting that act!

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD Yet another “report” to gaslight the UN into extending the weapons embargo against Iran. US and Co. are desperate at this point.

World specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD SHOCKING!! 😱 “At the edge of the desert in North Khorasan province in northeast Iran, near the country’s largest deposit of bauxite, sits an aluminium production complex”

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD Not so secret, is it.

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD This seems eerily similar to the aluminum tubes used to justify invasion of Iraq.

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD Oooohhh! 'special reports' coming in thick and fast, coincidentally with zionist push in the IAEA. Yawn.

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD Good for them. Don’t mess with Iran.

World specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD Lol 😉 instead of producing Coronvirus vaccine for human race ..........they look busy producing WMD. What an irony 😯🙏

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD The US only respects the sovereignty of your country if you possess a credible missile deterrent

specialreports bozorgmehr PratimaD The Trump Failure in Iran is evident for all to see.

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