Iran opens space center
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Iran launched a research rocket Monday and unveiled its first major space center, which will be used to launch research satellites, state-run television reported.
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Iran has set up two cascades of 164 centrifuges each in its underground nuclear plant, laying a basis for full-scale enrichment of uranium and upping the stakes in a standoff with the West, European diplomats said on Monday.
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Rising space power China provided a rare peek into its top-secret launch center Wednesday, capitalizing on its recent success in orbit to promote the military-funded project as a lure for foreign investment and a key to growing prosperity.
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AUSTRIA VIENNA -- Technical crews have hauled centrifuges into Iran's vast underground complex in Natanz and are on the threshold of launching a program that could be used to create nuclear arms, diplomats said yesterday. Hundreds of technicians have been "working feverishly" to install centrifuges and support equipment to enrich uranium, said officials from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. ...
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Iran's announcement that it launched a research rocket has called new attention to a space program that Tehran says is peaceful but which some fear aims to produce long-range ballistic missiles that could reach Europe or the United States.
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Iran has launched a sub-orbital rocket for scientific research, not a missile capable of reaching space as earlier reported, an aerospace official told an Iranian news agency yesterday.
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A senior Iranian official said on Friday Iran had allowed the installation of surveillance cameras at a complex where it is set to begin expanding enrichment of nuclear fuel.
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A US nuclear monitor shows satellite images of an Iranian weapons facility which may be working on nuclear weapons.
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Iran launches a research rocket to inaugurate its first home-built space centre, state TV reports.
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Iran has agreed to give U.N. inspectors access to a huge military site that the United States alleges is linked to a secret nuclear weapons program, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday.
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VIENNA, Austria - Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.    Iran's president, Mohammad Khatami, vowed his country will press ahead with its nuclear program - which he insisted is peaceful - even if it means a rupture with the U.N...
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Definitely not a missile. Honest. Iran distracted attention from its nuclear programme this weekend, by announcing it had shot off a rocket into space. Or, according to who you believe, it had tested a dirty great missile.â¦
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday inaugurated the country's first home-built space centre, which will serve as a base for the launch of research satellites, state media reported.
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'Nothing for anyone to worry about' The Islamic Republic of Iran announced yesterday that it had fired a rocket "into space" and transmitted footage of the launch on state media. The move drew instant condemnation from the Bush administration in America.â¦
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Israel's military launched a spy satellite early Monday, the Defense Ministry said, and a senior official suggested it could help keep track of developments in Iran.
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Iran said it would test a rocket  launcher on Monday that was designed to send the Islamic  Republic's first homemade research satellite into orbit by  March 2009, state media reported.
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Iran is able to launch a missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles), the official IRNA news agency on Tuesday quoted influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as saying.