{"id":217022,"date":"2010-01-12T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.armscontrolwonk.com,2010-01-13:57f256023a9af1385990be02cc9db91e\/64c2449535db23e4fd207aba56a8dcc2"},"modified":"2010-01-12T21:26:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:26:04","slug":"google-finally-shows-iri-space-center-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217022","title":{"rendered":"Google Finally Shows IRI Space Center [8]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: left; margin-right: 30px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armscontrolwonk.com\/images\/1675.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Quite a few of my friends have been urging me to write something about the \u201cnew\u201d images of Iran\u2019s space center that have shown up recently on Google Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is, I hate rehashing stuff I wrote about almost two years ago when I &#8220;discovered&#8221; the facility\u2014much like Columbus &#8220;discovered&#8221; America\u2014and wrote about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.janes.com\/subscribe\/jir\/doc_view.jsp?K2DocKey=\/content1\/janesdata\/mags\/jir\/history\/jir2008\/jir10358.htm\">Jane\u2019s Intelligence Review<\/a> (see Geoffrey Forden, &#8220;Smoke and Mirrors: Analyzing the Iranian missile test&#8221;, <em><span class=\"caps\">JIR<\/span><\/em>, April 2008, pp. 47-51; I have never understood how the editors pick titles for my papers).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most interesting part of the imagery now, given <a href=http:\/\/www.armscontrolwonk.com\/2458\/secret-iranian-missile-memos > the connection between these two countries\u2019 missile programs, <\/a> is the similarity between a building at North Korea\u2019s launch site and one at Iran\u2019s.  For those who would like to examine the site themselves, let me replicate the coordinates I published in the open literature for the first time nearly two years ago:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">35.234440\u00b0 N, 53.920798\u00b0E.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/acw\/~4\/UZ0wJbL73Jg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few of my friends have been urging me to write something about the \u201cnew\u201d images of Iran\u2019s space center that have shown up recently on Google Earth. The trouble is, I hate rehashing stuff I wrote about almost two years ago when I &#8220;discovered&#8221; the facility\u2014much like Columbus &#8220;discovered&#8221; America\u2014and wrote about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}