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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/world/middleeast/israel-strikes-iran-shahroud-space-center.html
Satellite Images Suggest Israel Struck a Major Iranian Missile Plant
(New York Times) Ephrat Livni - New satellite photographs suggest that the Israeli military's attack on Iran on Saturday struck an array of sensitive military sites, including the Shahroud Space Center in Semnan Province, a major missile production facility which belongs to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Fabian Hinz, a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who has been tracking that site since 2017, said it was used to build solid-propellant rocket motors that can be used in space technology, but which are also commonly used for ballistic missiles. Hinz said he had "high confidence" that the Shahroud facility was used in the mass production of intermediate-range ballistic missiles that could be used to target Israel. Initial reports suggested that three of Iran's four factories for missile production had been hit. Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi, the IDF chief of staff, said Tuesday that if Iran struck again, "We will once again know how to reach Iran, with capabilities that we did not even use this time, and strike very, very hard at both their capabilities and locations. This is not over. We are still in the midst of it."