{"id":101366,"date":"2020-06-24T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=101366"},"modified":"2020-06-24T09:14:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:14:30","slug":"iranian-missile-program-moves-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=101366","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Missile Program Moves Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_100915\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100915\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100915\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/higher.jpg?resize=223%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/higher.jpg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/higher.jpg?resize=247%2C333&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/higher.jpg?w=692&amp;ssl=1 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-100915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran tests another missile?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Iran is nearing its goal: produce better quality fuel (solid rocket propellant) for its missiles program<\/p>\n<p>From the article:\u00a0 &#8230;the site near the city of Jajarm is also home to a secret facility set up by Iran\u2019s elite security force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, that has been producing aluminium powder for use in its missile programme, according to a former Iranian government official and documents relating to the facility he shared with Reuters. Aluminium powder, derived from bauxite, is a key ingredient in solid-fuel propellants used to launch missiles. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>The full article is here. If the spelling looks odd (programme instead of program), it&#8217;s the Brits at it again.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-missiles-programme-specialreport\/special-report-inside-irans-secret-project-to-produce-aluminium-powder-for-missiles-idUSKBN23V1K1\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-missiles-programme-specialreport\/special-report-inside-irans-secret-project-to-produce-aluminium-powder-for-missiles-idUSKBN23V1K1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In reference to their missile program, didn\u2019t they have a smokin\u2019 hot accident on the launch pad less than a year ago?<\/p>\n<p>If this programme is so secret, how come all these reporters know all about it?<\/p>\n<p>What happens if they manage to launch one successfully, but instead of heading out to the Persian Gulf to destroy fishing grounds and Kuwaiti oil tankers, it heads to Teheran and flattens the place? Just askin\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is nearing its goal: produce better quality fuel (solid rocket propellant) for its missiles program From the article:\u00a0 &#8230;the site near the city of Jajarm is also home to a secret facility set up by Iran\u2019s elite security force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, that has been producing aluminium powder for use in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-qmW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}