World super powers are seeking time from Iran to resume talks on her 
controversial nuclear programme but instead of announcing a schedule, it has harassed them with launch of rocket carrying live monkey to show it missile progress, posting a threat to west that its programme could launch a nuke as well.
The Islamic Republic denies seeking weapons capability and says it seeks only electricity from its uranium enrichment so it can export more of its considerable oil wealth. The powers have proposed new talks in February, a spokesman for the European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Monday, hours after Russia urged all concerned to ‘stop behaving like children’ and commit to a meeting.
The launch was ‘another giant step’ in space technology and biological
research ‘which is the monopoly of a few countries’, the statement said. The small grey monkey was pictured strapped into a padded seat and being loaded into the Kavoshgar rocket dubbed ‘Pishgam’ (Pioneer) which state media said reached a height of more than 120 km (75 miles).
‘This shipment returned safely to Earth with the anticipated speed along with the live organism,’ Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi told the semi-official Fars news agency. ‘The launch of Kavoshgar and its retrieval is the first step towards sending humans into space in the next phase.’
There was no independent confirmation of the launch.
The West worries that long-range ballistic technology used to propel Iranian satellites into orbit could be put to use dispatching nuclear warheads to a target. Bruno Gruselle of France’s Foundation for Strategic Research said that if the monkey launch report were true it would suggest a ‘quite significant’ engineering feat by Iran.
controversial nuclear programme but instead of announcing a schedule, it has harassed them with launch of rocket carrying live monkey to show it missile progress, posting a threat to west that its programme could launch a nuke as well.
The Islamic Republic denies seeking weapons capability and says it seeks only electricity from its uranium enrichment so it can export more of its considerable oil wealth. The powers have proposed new talks in February, a spokesman for the European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Monday, hours after Russia urged all concerned to ‘stop behaving like children’ and commit to a meeting.
The launch was ‘another giant step’ in space technology and biological
research ‘which is the monopoly of a few countries’, the statement said. The small grey monkey was pictured strapped into a padded seat and being loaded into the Kavoshgar rocket dubbed ‘Pishgam’ (Pioneer) which state media said reached a height of more than 120 km (75 miles).
‘This shipment returned safely to Earth with the anticipated speed along with the live organism,’ Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi told the semi-official Fars news agency. ‘The launch of Kavoshgar and its retrieval is the first step towards sending humans into space in the next phase.’
There was no independent confirmation of the launch.
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In Washington, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters she could not confirm whether Iran had successfully sent a monkey into space or conducted any launch at all, saying that if it had done so ‘it’s a serious concern.’ Nuland said such a launch would violate UN Security Council Resolution 1929, whose text bars Iran from ‘any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using ballistic missile technology.’The West worries that long-range ballistic technology used to propel Iranian satellites into orbit could be put to use dispatching nuclear warheads to a target. Bruno Gruselle of France’s Foundation for Strategic Research said that if the monkey launch report were true it would suggest a ‘quite significant’ engineering feat by Iran.
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