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No,the hwasong 14 uses a single engine of around 75-80 tonnes of thrust,the simorgh uses an engine block that combines four engines for around 120 tonnes of thrust.There is a little bit of similarity between the simorgh and the dprks unha slv in that they both use the same 4 engine approach,even using the same engines in fact,tho the execution is a little different in that the simorgh uses an extra turbopump to run the vernier engines which necessitates moving the engines further apart compared to the unha,you can see this in these 3d models of both vehicles
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/will-irans-simorgh-space-launcher-appear-north-korea/
If you`re interested then check out this site,it has 3d interactives on the dprks missiles right up to the hwasong 12
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/north-korean-ballistic-missile-models/
I think it would be better if Iran went to the KOSMOS-3M design for the 2nd stage & beyond!