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Iran launches its first space sattelite!
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| Kinezi |
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The United States has voiced "great concern" over Iran launching its first domestically built satellite.
Robert Wood, a US state department spokesman, said that Tuesday's satellite launch by Tehran could "possibly lead to the development of ballistic missiles".
The fears were echoed by Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, who said that it raised suspicion that Iran was continuing to develop a missile of "increasingly long range".
The satellite, named Omid (Hope), was launched into orbit by rocket and is the first in a series that Iran plans to put into space by the end of next year.
"With this launch, the Islamic Republic of Iran has officially achieved a presence in space," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, said in a broadcast.
Omid will stay in orbit for up to three months as part of a programme Iranian officials say is aimed at improving telecommunications and monitoring natural disasters.
Nuclear fears
Ahmadinejad has made scientific development, which often puts the country at odds with the West, a central theme of his presidency.
The satellite's launch demonstrates the development of technologies that many countries fear could one day be used to launch nuclear weapons. Iran insists it has no plans to do so.
The Iranian Fars state news agency said the satellite "has been designed for gathering information and for testing equipment ... [that] is going to help Iranian experts send an operational satellite into space".
It said the launch was "another achievement for Iranian scientists under sanctions".
Iran is under two rounds of UN sanctions due to its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, which the US and other Western nations fear could lead to the production of nuclear weapons.
Tehran says its nuclear ambitions are limited to generating electricity.
A satellite was put into orbit by Iran in 2005, but was carried by a Russian rocket.
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Congrats Iran, you do us proud!
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/m...1848249287.html |
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| Krypton |
| No, Iran must be kept as a third world piece of power. |
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| Jake Benson |
| Hijabs in outer space! |
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| Lemonad |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
Hijabs in outer space! |
too bad fags haven't encountered the final frontier, right? |
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| LazFX |
Great, only forty years behind the times! Are they going to discover microwaves soon?
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| Lemonad |
| quote: | Originally posted by LazFX
Great, only forty years behind the times! Are they going to discover microwaves soon?
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Considering they have all kinds of sanctions on them, I'd say it's a pretty good effort for limited resources. Let us see USA do that. |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lemonad
Considering they have all kinds of sanctions on them, I'd say it's a pretty good effort for limited resources. Let us see USA do that. |
Well I do have to say that it is very impressive for Iran though. Politics aside, if I was Iranian, this is a proud moment for the people of that country. |
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| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lemonad
too bad fags haven't encountered the final frontier, right? |
too bad fags don't get hung to death in Iran. Oh wait... |
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| otec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
too bad fags don't get hung to death in Iran. Oh wait... |
Oh wait! Lets bomb them killing thousands of innocent women and children for that! Than we gonna build a prison camp over there, pile a bunch of naked Iranians and them in their tight asses!
Rock'n'Roll baby! |
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| Lemonad |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
too bad fags don't get hung to death in Iran. Oh wait... |
Go have a visit and experiences it yourself. |
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| Fir3start3r |
Does it look like this? ;)
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| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lemonad
Go have a visit and experiences it yourself. |
No, for the same reason I wouldn't want to visit Germany in 1941. |
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