The media is trying to scare us: „Iran has developed nuclear missiles in cooperation with North Korea.“
Yesterday’s headlines of this kind were based on an article published in the British The Telegraph.
But this is complete misinformation!
The missiles that Iran is developing are not „nuclear missiles“ but rather „missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.“
And, of course, there is a huge difference! After all, missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead have existed in the Middle East for decades… For example, the Russian Scud missiles, which the USSR and later Russia sold to Syria and Egypt many years ago, also have this capability.
However, since Egypt and Syria do not have nuclear warheads, these missiles are equipped with conventional warheads instead.
The same applies to Iran’s „new missiles“ — they are completely conventional.
Headlines like these, like many others, simply boost the ratings of the publications that print them (because people click and read…), but they contain no real substance or truth.
So, there's no need to panic. I'm here to explain the situation as clearly as possible:
1. Iran does not have nuclear weapons, meaning it has no nuclear warheads.
2. It only has enriched uranium, and not even at the highest level.
3. Even if Iran „rushes forward“ and begins enriching uranium to the highest level, this still won’t give it a nuclear warhead, because there are several necessary steps in the process:
1) Extracting the enriched uranium from centrifuges (which is actually in the form of UF₆ gas) and converting it into metallic uranium at special processing facilities (located in Isfahan). This process takes several months.
2) Precisely refining the uranium, shaping it into two hemispheres (or another shape suitable for initiating a chain reaction).
3) Developing a nuclear warhead casing — and, according to publicly available intelligence from Israel, Iran has not yet done this.
4) After all these stages, all components must be integrated into a suitable missile warhead.
This entire process takes time—at least a year, and Iran has not even started it.
I'll repeat once again to reassure you: Iran does not have any nuclear missiles (and everyone understands that if it did, it would not miss the chance to showcase them and use them for threats).
Moreover, during Israel’s attack on Iran, according to open-source information, all mixers in Iran used for producing solid rocket fuel were destroyed.
As a result, Iran’s missile development program has been significantly undermined.
Good news!