ML20236F314

Telegram Re Iranian Threat to Attack Us Nuclear Reactors If American Forces Strike Iranian Missile Batteries in Persian Gulf.Possible Strikes Against Mobile Silkworm Batteries Among Options Being Considered by Defense Planners

ML20236F314
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Issue date:	06/10/1987
From:	Fouchard J NRC OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS (GPA)
To:	Burnett R NRC
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ML20236F277	List: IA-87-453, PNS-NMSS-87-001:re AP Rept That Recent Tehran Radio Station Broadcast of Iranian Official Indicated That Us Ctrs,Nuclear Reactors & Other Us Interests Worldwide Can Be More Vulnerable to Attack than Iranian Missile Bases ML20236F274 ML20236F314 ML20236F326
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FOIA-87-453 NUDOCS 8708030292
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,,06/10/87 10:15 NRC-M&M-MNBB NO.004 001 D

IRRN-US NICOSIRs CYPRUS (AP) -- IRAN ISSUED A THINLY VEILED THREAT T0 BTIACK

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NUCLEAR REACTORS IF AMERICnN FORCES STRIKE IR6HIAN MISSlLE RTTERIES IN THE PERSIAN. GULF.

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TEHREN RADIO SAID TUESD6Y NIGHT IRANI'AN AUTHORITIES BELIEVF. TH8T THE i

lMERICRNS, CONTRARY TO WHAT THEY CLAIM ARE UN8BLE TO RCCEPT THE RISK 1F RTTACKING IRANIfiN MISSILE B8SES IN THE PERSIAN GULF OR OTHER FORMS

!F. CONFRONTATION.

U.S.

CENTERS RND NUCL' EAR REACTORS CAN BE MORE VULNER8BLE THAN THE lISSILE 88SES OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC 0F IR8Ns IT S8ID.

THE BRORDCAST HONITORED IN NICOSIR, NOTED: U.S.

INTERESTS

'HROUGHOUT THE WORLD ARE SO SCniTERED AND UNCONTROLL8BLE THAT, SHOULD JMERICR BECOME EMBROILED WITH THE ISL8MIC REPUBLICS THE VULkER8BILITY lF THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION WOULD BE HIGH.

i WASHINGTON CONSIDERS IRAN'S DEPLOYMENT OF CHINESE-M8DE HY-2 SILKWORM bNTI-SHIP MISSILES ON THE STRRI,T OF HORMUZs G8TEWAY:TO THE GULFS

?ERHAPS THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT TO FREEDON OF NAVIGATION IN THE l

BTRRTEGIC WATERWRY.

THE MISSILES HAVE 8 RANGE DE UP TO 50 NILES AND CAN CARRY 900-POUND i

D8RHERDSi BIG EN0 UGH TO SINK A TANKER OR FREIGHTER.'

U.S. OFFICIRLS H8VE SRID TH8T POSSIBLE STRIKES 80AINST THE MOBILE f

l BILKWORM BATTERIES ARE AMONG OPTIONS BEING CONSIDERED BY DEFENSE blRNNERS.

CP-WX-06-10-87 1006EDT.

$019 ll1 FAX TO:

Robert Burnett, Willste SECY (Distribute to Commissioners) H St. & H. Denton 5

FROM:

J. Fouchard, PA 1 page 8700030292 970730 HERG

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