MER - Father of Iran’s drive for nuclear warhead named

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> A senior officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has emerged as the father of a nuclear programme that western intelligence services believe is aimed at producing a warhead capable of devastating any city in the Middle East....<br><br>Fakhrizadeh is the head of “Project 111”, an Iranian attempt to produce a nuclear warhead capable of exploding at 2,000ft and causing devastation over a wide area.<br><br>The material on the laptop obtained by US intelligence suggested a warhead would be designed to fit Iran’s Shahab-3 missile. Israel is seen as the most likely target. <b on></b> </body>