Iran's war against the US and Israel is being fueled by North Korean weapons, expert warns

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s immense rocket strategy is the brainchild of the U.S.-designated state-sponsor of terrorism, the communist North Korea regime, which works manus successful mitt with Iran, according to 1 of the world’s starring experts connected the Iran-North Korea strategical alliance.

"The rocket launched astatine Diego Garcia was a Musudan. The Iranians bought 19 of these from the North Koreans and took transportation successful 2005. They person had this capableness since 2005 — and this is nary ‘secret weapon,"’ Bruce Bechtol, who co-authored with Anthony Celso the groundbreaking publication "Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership Between Iran and North Korea," told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital reported past week that Iran significantly escalated its warfare effort against the U.S. with its motorboat of 2 intermediate-range ballistic missiles toward Diego Garcia—roughly 2,500 miles from Iran.

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Kim pictured visiting a large munitions depot successful an representation released successful December 2025.  (KCNA via Reuters )

Bechtol said, "The astir important menace from Iran arsenic the warfare with the United States and Israel has evolved has been the ballistic missiles, launched not lone astatine U.S. facilities and Israeli cities, but besides astatine neighboring Islamic countries. Thus, it is important to see this capableness and wherever Iran got it."

He said, "The short-range ballistic missiles that Iran has launched astatine cardinal U.S. facilities and astatine neighboring Arab states see a cardinal strategy – the "QIAM."  The QIAM was developed and improved with North Korean assistance… North Korea has proliferated a batch to Iran that we are seeing close present successful the war."

Here is the motorboat of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Shahab-3 medium-range rocket during a trial astatine an undisclosed determination connected Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. (AP Photo)

The associated U.S.-Israeli warfare against Iran’s regime, the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism, according to the U.S. State Department, has entered its 5th week of combat.

Bechtol, who is simply a prof of governmental subject successful the Department of Security Studies at Angelo State University successful Texas, noted that, according to the Wisconsin Project, North Korea had constructed a ample rocket trial installation astatine Emamshahr, a metropolis successful the Fars Province successful Iran, and a tracking installation astatine Tabas successful South Khorasan province.

He said that North Korea aided Iran with important exertion "for targets farther distant from Iran."

"The North Koreans proliferated astir 150 No Dong systems to Iran successful the precocious 1990s. The Iranians were seemingly precise blessed with the missiles the North Koreans provided them, and, pursuing the earlier precedent of the Scud C factory, contracted with Pyongyang to physique a No Dong installation successful Iran.

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Bechtol continued, "The Iranians called this "new" rocket the Shahab-3. The Shahab-3 is astir an nonstop transcript of the No Dong. Once the Shahab-3 was up and running, the North Koreans moved guardant with the Iranians successful improving its scope and lethality."

He said, "With assistance from the North Koreans, the Iranians were past capable to nutrient (at the No Dong facility) the Emad and the Ghadr. The Emad has a scope of 1,750 kilometers (approx 1,087 miles) and the Ghadr has a scope of 1,950 kilometers (approximately 1,212 miles.) The Iranians person utilized these 2 systems to people not lone Israel, but their Arab neighbors (including U.S. bases located successful these countries) passim the ongoing archetypal stages of this conflict."

A Ghadr-H missile, center, a Sejjil rocket and a representation of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are connected show for the yearly Defense Week, marking the 37th day of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, astatine Baharestan Sq. successful Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017 (AP)

Bechtol said that the North Koreans spawned an Iranian rocket warhead that weighs a ton and a fractional to 2 tons connected the almighty Khorramshahr-4. "There is different strategy susceptible of hitting Israel that has been adjacent much lethal than immoderate of the systems described frankincense far. This strategy is called the ‘Khorramshahr,’ and the 4th mentation of this system, appropriately called the ‘Khorramshahr-4,’ has been proven to transportation a warhead larger than immoderate different successful Iran’s rocket inventory, equipped with what appears to beryllium clump munitions," helium said.

He described the strategical partnership, noting: "North Korea is the seller and Iran is the buyer. North Korea proliferates weapons systems, technology, parts and components, technicians, engineers and specialists and subject capabilities (such arsenic the gathering of underground facilities) to Iran. Iran pays North Korea with currency and oil. Simple arsenic that."

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Residents and officers from Israel's Home Front Command inspect a location destroyed by an Iranian rocket onslaught successful Zarzir, bluish Israel, Friday, March 13, 2026. (Ariel Schalit/AP Photo)

Bechtol said the lone mode to halt this is done sanctions enforcement against North Korea. "The sanctions that are needed are already connected the books. But the USA and our cardinal allies request to robustly enforce them. We request to spell aft banks, beforehand companies and cyber entities successful bid to compression the wealth and incorporate oregon destruct the proviso chain."

He said, "More accent needs to beryllium placed, and much enactment needs to beryllium taken utilizing the Proliferation Security Initiative — an underused facet of preventing North Korea's arms from flowing to rogue nations and violent groups.  If you chopped disconnected the proviso chain, you chopped disconnected the proliferation."