Iran Launches Rocket to Commemorate New Space Center
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Iran fired a research rocket into space Monday to mark the opening of its space center, a move that was immediately condemned by the United States.
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25 September 2004 -- The Iranian defense minister announced today that the country has successfully test-fired a strategic, long-range missile and delivered the weapon to its armed forces.
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THE US says it believes Iran has been working on developing a nuclear missile by combining rocket technology with secret plans for an atomic bomb.
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Like millions of children, Anousheh Ansari dreamed and wondered about the stars. Next month the Iranian-born U.S. entrepreneur can get a closer look, as she rides a Russian capsule to the international space station and becomes the first female space tourist.
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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 launched an English-language  satellite television channel on Monday saying it was seeking to  redress the balance of world news coverage which was now in the  grip of the West.
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Iran's state-run TV station says the country has a new space center, and has launched a rocket into space. Skeptics say it's a cover for ballistic missiles.
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Iran has successfully tested a &quot;strategic missile&quot; and delivered it to its armed forces, state-run radio reported yesterday.
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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.
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Iran on Sunday test-fired a surface-to-surface short-range missile a day after its army launched large-scale military exercises throughout the country, state-run television reported.
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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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An Iranian-American woman becomes the first paying female space tourist, following the successful liftoff of a Russian rocket bound for the international space station. She'll return to Earth at the end of the month.
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Iran said on Wednesday it had conducted tests on a more accurate version of the Shihab-3 missile, which is capable of reaching Israel.
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Iran is ready to repeat a test of a new version of its Shahab-3 ballistic missile, a weapon Iran maintains it produced in response to Israeli efforts to improve its own missile power and test-fired successfully last month.
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Iran said Saturday it successfully tested a "strategic missile" and delivered it to its armed forces, state-run radio reported.
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Iran, the Middle East&#39;s second- largest oil producer, has successfully completed testing of a ``strategic missile,&#39;&#39; the country&#39;s official news agency reported, citing Iran&#39;s defense minister.
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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.