I see they named it after their muzzie brother in arms...
Posted on 02/05/2009 9:37:33 AM PST by Ben Mugged
Iran insisted on Wednesday that the launch of its first home-built satellite has no military aims, despite deep concerns in arch-foe Israel and the West about the development.
"This is a scientific and technical achievement and has no military aims," foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi told reporters.
Iran's launch of the Omid (Hope) satellite carried by the home-built Safir-2 rocket on Monday has set alarm bells ringing among Western powers already at loggerheads with Tehran over its nuclear programme.
But hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the move signalled Tehran's technological achievement and was an attempt to break the Western world's monopoly on science.
"We should try to break this scientific monopoly," he said at a seminar on science in Tehran.~snip~
The West suspects Iran of secretly trying to build an atomic bomb and fears the technology used to launch a space rocket could be diverted into developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy purposes and that it has the right to technology already in the hands of many other nations, including archfoe the United States.
The West and Israel reacted strongly to the satellite launch, which came ahead of a meeting in Germany on Wednesday of senior diplomats from six world powers on the nuclear standoff.
(Excerpt) Read more at space-travel.com ...
Yeah, riiiiiight. Pull the other one.
I see they named it after their muzzie brother in arms...
The reporter likes his Kool-Aid straight up, and orders a bottle at a time...
They would have more credibility if they hadn’t named the satellite “Death to Israel”.
Orrrrrrr...Death to America...this is all part of the continuing nightmare of the Kenyan administration...these nutjobs will soon have nuclear missles...
Well, it’s kind of hard to aim an Iranian yoot hugging a bomb...
This is a scientific and technical achievement and has no military aims,”
Well thats it must be true,nothing to see here move along.
Phew! That's a load off. I was getting worried there for a minute. I feel much better now that I know Iran's satellite rocketry capability won't be used for military aims. Glad they cleared that up.
Since they have 5 television sets in the whole country (1960-vintage Zenith black-and-whites), we know the satellite wasn’t for TV transmission.
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