Iran Space Program Causes Concern
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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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CAIRO -- Iran's decision to grant international inspectors greater access to a major nuclear facility was greeted by skepticism as well as cautious hope yesterday among nonproliferation analysts.
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A new report released by an American Physical Society (APS) Special Committee on NASA Funding for Astrophysics has questioned the space agency's Moon, Mars and Beyond initiative. The APS assessment warns that t  he cost of overcoming technological challenges to make real the plan could far exceed budgetary projections and that numerous&nbsp;approved science programs could be jeopardized.
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China either didn't know or didn't care that its test of a satellite killer would produce a spray of space debris. Either way, it's worrisome for the future use of space.  Another question is why China even bothered.
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Iran launched a rocket on Monday  designed to send its first homemade research satellite into  orbit in the next year, state television said, a move likely to  add to Western concerns about Tehran's nuclear plans.
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France said on Thursday an Iranian rocket  Tehran says is intended to put a satellite into orbit is in  fact a missile that cannot navigate in space, and added to  concerns that the technology is aimed at making weapons.
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IRAN&#39;S nuclear program does not present an &quot;imminent threat,&#39;&quot; but Tehran must take measures to reassure the international community about its intentions, UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday.
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Some Republicans in Congress are second-guessing a government intelligence report that Iran has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. They want a second opinion.
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Buried in the IAEA report on Iran's nuclear activities are a few encouraging facts. In Danger Room.
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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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Iran's government is conducting nuclear  activities linked to a covert atomic weapons program at a  military site unknown to U.N. inspectors, says an exiled  opposition group that has given accurate information before.
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Western powers are struggling to decide how to react to Iran&#39;s fledgling nuclear programme. Take a hard line, and the Iranian people may side with the hawks in their government, who want to develop nuclear weapons.
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TEHRAN -- Behind Iran's defiant stance on its nuclear program lies an anxious debate over the country's role in the world.
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The government of Iran has said it is to put forward its own proposals for reducing international concerns about its nuclear programme.
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An Iranian rocket launched over the weekend that soared to the edge of space was intended for research, an Iranian space official said, in comments that appeared intended to show that the program is aimed at launching satellites, not missiles.
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European Union officials have expressed concern that international sanctions targetting Iran's nuclear programme might not be enough to curb its atomic ambitions, in a document obtained by AFP.
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After boasting of rapid progress for months, Iran has slowed expansion of a controversial uranium enrichment program that can be used both for peaceful nuclear energy and to develop weapons, according to the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency.