Iran launches satellite but denies it’s for weapons programme
Iran insists it has no nuclear ambitions as Donald Trump tweets that the US Navy must ‘destroy Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea’
22 April 2020 - 17:51
Dubai — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday it had successfully launched the country’s first military satellite into orbit, at a time of heightened tensions with the US over Tehran’s nuclear and missile programmes.
US officials have said they fear long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also be used to launch nuclear warheads. Tehran denies US assertions that such activity is a cover for ballistic missile development and says it has never pursued the development of nuclear weapons...
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