Don’t Bomb Iran

Reports suggest that Iran may have part-funded development of Israel’s nuclear-tipped Jericho II missile in the late 1970s, and discussed cooperation on sea-launched cruise missiles. At the same time White House workers including Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Kissinger were trying to sell Iran’s brutal dictator a massive nuclear program including plutonium processing

The Iranian Connection to Israel’s ballistic missiles
Israeli.Weapons.com says that Iran may have partly funded the development of Israel’s Jericho II nuclear missile about 1977 but the cooperation finished in 1979 with the fall of the Shah. It also says France built the first 14 of Israel’s Jericho 1 missiles in the early 1970’s so it is likely that Iran obtained some of that technology.
Rumsfeld Commission on Ballistic Missile Threats testimony reveals

There is also an Iranian connection with the Israeli ballistic missile program. In 1977 and 1978 the Iranians were negotiating weapons cooperation agreements with the Israelis. Among the projects, it appears, were two surface-to-surface weapons systems: an anti-ship cruise missile and a version of the Jericho missile with a 750 kilogram warhead. (33) Press accounts confused the two projects, and some reporters incorrectly asserted that the two countries were developing a submarine-launched ballistic missile. (34)

33. W. Seth Carus, Cruise Missile Proliferation in the 1990s (Westport,
Connecticut: Praeger, 1992), pp. 148-149.

34. Elaine Sciolino, "Documents Detail Israeli Missile Deal With the Shah,"
New York Times, April 1, 1986, p. A17. A close reading of the documents
indicates that there were in fact two programs, not one as asserted by
Sciolino. The Flower was an antiship cruise missile, although it is usually
identified as a ballistic missile project.