MOSCOW. May 20 (Interfax-AVN) - Iran and North Korea do not have ballistic missiles capable of reaching the territory of the U.S. and other NATO countries, Russian Army General Staff spokesman Vyacheslav Kondrashov said at a conference in Moscow on Friday.
"The threat of a missile attack against the world's leading powers, including the U.S. and NATO countries, appears to be extremely insignificant," Kondrashov said.
Iran and North Korea may be developing or have in service operational-tactical and tactical missiles, but they are far from creating intercontinental ballistic missiles, let alone with a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the U.S. and its allies, he said.
"The U.S. assessments, whereby Iran and North Korea could soon have ICBMs, are quite remote from this level of development of missile technologies," Kondrashov said.
Tehran has Shahab-3 missiles in service, but to be able to reach the U.S. territories this missile needs to go through the third stage of development and to be fitted with a nuclear warhead, he said.
"With Iran's existing capabilities, this appears to be technically unfeasible," Kondrashov said.