Iran could have missiles of North Korea

Iran obtained 19 advanced missiles from North Korea, which may lead to the Islamic nation the ability to attack the cities of Moscow and Western Europe, according to cables sent by the embassy WikiLeaks.org and if the New York Times .

U.S. officials reported the release on the eve of the departure of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton at a security conference in the Persian Gulf, such as endangering U.S. relations with foreign governments and people in danger. Wikileaks began putting up the cables yesterday.

The 19 North Korean BM-25 missiles based on Russian design known as the R-27, could give Iran the "building blocks" for the production of long-range missiles, according to a cable published February 24 on Wikileaks. The cable did not provide concrete evidence, according to the Times, which agreed not to publish the document at the request of the Obama administration.

"North Korea and Iran have had a relationship of missiles for decades and most likely is a nuclear relationship," said Bruce Klingner, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington and former head of the branch of the Central Intelligence Agency Korea. "The leaking of classified documents provides a greater sense of trust" analysis previously carried out by external experts and, most recently in a photograph of a parade of North Korea, he said.

U.S. Press

Diplomatic cables published by The Guardian, which also received advance copies of Wikileaks, indicate and Saudi Arabia in early 2008 and other Arab governments pressed the United States to attack Iran to stop getting a nuclear bomb, although some expressed concern that a military attack could destabilize the region.

Obama has won management stiffer United Nations sanctions against Iran Security Council and sealing arms deals such as an agreement for $ 60 million with Saudi Arabia over the next 10 years.

The State Department refused to confirm the information on which Wikileaks says it's more than 250,000 documents covering a period between December 1966 and February 2010.

"I can not give veracity of Wikileaks has posted anything to the media," said Nicole Thompson, a State Department spokesman, in an interview, adding the agency policy is to refrain from commenting on certain filtering materials.

About 9,000 documents were classified as information too sensitive to be shared with a foreign government, the New York Times. None were classified as "top secret", according to the Times.

Similar tone

Along with the Guardian in the UK, France's Le Monde, El Pais in Spain and the German Der Spiegel Wikileaks obtained the documents.

On the threat of Iran, a cable published by The Guardian quoted Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., citing "frequent exhortations to attack Iran and stop" Saudi King Abdullah to Iran's program of nuclear weapons. The exchange took place in an April 20, 2008 meeting between al-Jubeir, then Iraq, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and the commander of U.S. Central Command, General David Petraeus, told The Guardian.

A similar tone was struck by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain in a November 4, 2009 conversation with Petraeus.

King Hamad, "said Iran as the source of many problems" in the region, "argued forcefully to take steps to end its nuclear program by whatever means necessary" according to a classified cable.

Hamad said that "the danger of letting go is greater than the risk of arrest," the cable quoted by The Guardian.

Increased Monitoring

Bahrain is home to the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet. The cable also revealed that the king agreed to a request from NATO to the base of an AWACS air surveillance in the country as part of a greater control of Iran.

Israeli military sources said 14 days later at a meeting of 18 November 2009, with the U.S. State and Defense Department officials, including Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro, said 2010 would be a "critical year" for Iran's nuclear program and Israel's ability to attack, according to a cable published by The Guardian.

"If the Iranians continue to protect and strengthen its nuclear sites, will be harder to target and harm," the cable said, summarizing the concerns of Israel.

The cable said the two sides discussed the need to avoid the publicity of a "next installment" of the GBU-28 bunker-buster bombs to Israel "to avoid accusations that the U.S. is helping to prepare for an attack on Iran .

Iranian response

Iran's ties with Arab countries will not be affected by the publication of the cables in the U.S., Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said today in a speech broadcast live on state television in Tehran.

"Our relations with Arab countries and our neighbors are very good, we're like brothers," said Ahmadinejad. "There will be affected by these reports."

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his satisfaction that the information WikiLeaks said Arab leaders were concerned that Iran's nuclear program as its own government.

"More and more countries, governments and leaders in the Middle East and around the world understand that this is the fundamental threat," Netanyahu told a news conference in Tel Aviv. "I hope that the leaders have the courage to tell the public what their nations have said about Iran."

Carrying cash

The leaked documents include details on governments and officials, including an episode last year which include the president of Afghanistan, the then vice president, Ahmed Zia Massoud, leading to $ 52 million in cash during their visit to the UAE. Massoud denied having money in Afghanistan, according to the Times.

According to another cable, a contact in China, said the U.S. embassy in Beijing in January that China's Politburo headed an "intrusion" into Google Inc. 's local computer networks. Google hacking was "part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government agents, private security experts and outlaw Internet contracted by the Chinese government," said the New York Times in its account of Wikileaks cables.

Critical articles

China cyber attacks were orchestrated by a politburo member high-level articles are critical of it using the Google search engine, the Guardian reported. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Jessica Powell, a Tokyo-based spokesman for Google, were not immediately available for comment today.

In July 2009, Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, then supreme commander of defense of the United Arab Emirates, said that Ahmadinejad is Hitler ", The New York Times, citing documents.

Obama's government said in a statement yesterday that the embassy reporting to Washington "is a sincere and often incomplete information," is an expression of politics.

"However, these cables would endanger private conversations with foreign governments and opposition leaders," the statement from the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs.

Republicans condemn

The Republicans also condemned the release of the cables, with Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina indicating the "Fox News Sunday" that "WikiLeaks people may have blood on their hands."

Wikileaks, a nonprofit group that publishes information the government wants to keep secret, published earlier in October than 400,000 documents related to the war in Iraq and about 75,000 in July in the Afghan conflict.

An Army intelligence analyst named Bradley Manning was arrested in June at age 22 and charged with illegally releasing classified information. He had said in an online chat in May that the documents to download including "260 000 State Department cables from embassies and consulates around the world," the New York Times.

The Pentagon said yesterday it will take measures to prevent future recurrences, such as monitoring of user behavior in a manner similar to measures taken by the credit card companies to detect fraud. The military will also conduct safety inspections of surveillance at the forward bases and remove the ability of teams for downloading information on removable disks.