According to Yahoo News:
“Iran says it sent own satellite into orbit
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has successfully sent its first domestically made satellite into orbit, the country's president announced Tuesday, claiming a significant step in an ambitious space program that has worried many international observers.
The satellite, called Omid, or hope in Farsi, was launched late Monday after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave the order to proceed, according to a report on state radio. State television showed footage of what it said was the nighttime liftoff of the rocket carrying the satellite at an unidentified location in Iran.
In Washington, a senior U.S. defense official said the U.S. military detected the launch of a missile into space. But it was not confirmed whether the missile was carrying a satellite, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak about the intelligence.
French officials in Paris also confirmed that a launch took place but declined to say where they received the information. France was "worried that there is ... the development capabilities that can be used in the ballistic framework," said French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier.”
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And the word ballistic automatically sounds off the alarm of nuclear capabilities. The clerics in Iran are not progressive, but the idea that they will have nuclear arms in space is mostly a fictional nightmare of the US and major industrial countries. After all, how dare a small non-western government have its own satellite capabilities! They might be able to spy on our part of the world as easy as we spy on them. We have enough nuclear bombs to wipe out the world, but no third world country is allowed to have them.
This is the same fear mongering that past President George Bush used to get us into the Iraq quagmire.
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