Tehran gives ‘increasingly sophisticated’ weapons to Hezbollah

While the world focuses on Iran’s nuclear program, the Islamic Republic is also continuously improving and expanding its regular armed forces, including its arsenal of missiles that could strike Israel and other Western targets. According to a new Pentagon report, Tehran will be able to test intercontinental ballistic missiles within three years.

The report, a copy of which was obtained by The Times of Israel, also calls Iran an “active sponsor of terrorism” that continues to support groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah — which receives from Iran “increasingly sophisticated” arms.

Israeli leaders repeatedly call Iran the world’s greatest exporter of terrorism, blaming it for several attacks on Israeli and other Western targets.

“Iran’s conventional military capabilities continue to improve,” according to the Pentagon’s “Annual Report on Military Power of Iran.” “Beyond steady growth in its missile and rocket inventories, Iran has boosted the lethality and effectiveness of existing systems with accuracy improvements and new submunitions payloads,” the report states. “Iran may be technically capable of flight-testing an intercontinental ballistic missile by 2015.”

THe Times of Israel