MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti) - Iran"s...

International experts said Iran is working to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Islamic Republic has Shahab-3 (Meteor-3) medium-range ballistic missiles with a range up to 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles). North Korea provided assistance to the country to design and produce these missiles.

"Believing that Iran is not developing missiles we [the U.S.S.R.] invented back in the 1950s is naive. In my view, Iran has even greater potential and greater resources than North Korea has today," Maj.-Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin, the chief research associate of the International Security Center, told journalists in Moscow.

Dvorkin disagreed with the Russian General Staff"s assessment of Iran"s missile potential. "I believe statements by the Russian General Staff that Iran possesses missiles with a range of up to 1,000 km are inaccurate," he said.

Dvorkin said Iran already has missiles capable of reaching over 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles). "And if the upper stage of

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