Atlas of Iran’s Missile Cities - How the Islamic Republic built a hidden missile network across Iran – and how two wars exposed its limits

“Here lies the man who wanted to destroy Israel.” The words are carved into the tombstone of Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, the man the Islamic Republic later called the father of its missile industry. Almost in parallel with its nuclear program, the Islamic Republic spent nearly four decades advancing its missile program toward the goal Tehrani Moghaddam had written into his will: the destruction of Israel. It has not achieved that goal. Iranian officials have long insisted that the program is solely defensive. But the tombstone of the man credited with building it tells a different story. Tehrani Moghaddam was also...