Iran fires research rocket not space missile: agency
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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 on Sunday.
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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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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president, said the rocket had a range of 1,250 miles and added: &quot;Iran is determined to improve its military capabilities.
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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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TEHRAN : Iran will test fire a long-range missile amid fears in the West that Tehran is developing nuclear weapons and an ongoing review by the UN watchdog of the country&#39;s atomic energy program.
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Iran added a "strategic missile" to its military arsenal after a successful test, and the defense minister said Saturday his country was ready to confront any external threat.
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Iran says it has successfully fired its first rocket into space, though no details its type or range are known.
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Iran launches a research rocket to inaugurate its first home-built space centre, state TV reports.
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A missile fired by Hezbollah, not an unmanned drone laden with explosives, damaged an Israeli warship off Lebanon, the army said Saturday. Elite Iranian troops helped fire the missile, a senior Israeli intelligence official said.
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MANAUS, Brazil  - Washington has intelligence  suggesting Iran is working on the technology to deliver a  nuclear warhead on a missile, Secretary of State Colin Powell  said Wednesday in a claim that could increase fears about  Tehran's nuclear activities.
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A fatal attack launched two days ago against the headquarters garrison of the American military in Iraq was carried out using a 240 mm rocket &#151; a type of weapon provided to Shiite extremists by Iran, a U.S. general said Thursday.
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Iran released a video on Thursday which it said showed its boats did not threaten U.S. navy vessels in the Gulf, countering Washington's account of the event which President George W. Bush called "a provocative act".
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The head of the Iranian nuclear program said any attack on the country's atomic facilities would not extinguish the knowledge gained by young Iranian scientists, Iran's ISNA news agency reported.
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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 says it has successfully fired its first rocket into space, though no details of its type or range are known.
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The U.S. military said on Thursday an Iranian-made rocket was believed to have been used in an attack that killed one person on the headquarters of the American military in Iraq this week.
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Iran signalled its ambition to join the elite group of nations in space yesterday by claiming to have reached orbit with a rocket capable of carrying satellites