Iran plans manned spaceflight

[Bartok]

From New Scientist:

Iran plans to launch humans into space

* 15:37 21 August 2008




Iran plans to send a crewed rocket into space in the next 10 years, state television said on Thursday, just days after the Islamic Republic announced it had put a dummy satellite into orbit.

"One of the aims of Iran's 10-year space programme is to send a manned rocket into space," state television quoted Reza Taghipour, the head of Iran's aerospace organisation, as saying. "Within the next six months to one year, the exact date of this mission will be determined."

Taghipour said Iran would cooperate with Islamic countries in building a satellite that the television report said would be called "Besharat", meaning "good news". He also said Iran was working with Russia and other Asian states to launch another satellite.

Only three other nations have launched humans into space - Russia, the US and China.

Embroiled in a standoff with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran said on Sunday it had put a dummy satellite into orbit on a home-grown rocket for the first time.

US security officials said the launcher failed shortly after lift-off and did not reach its intended position. But Charles Vick, a senior analyst for the GlobalSecurity.org research group, said Iran appeared to have succeeded in igniting the second stage of its booster rocket and gained data that will help it perfect its launch system.

The long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into space can also be used for launching weapons. Iran says it has no such intention.

The West accuses Iran of seeking to build a nuclear warhead, a charge Tehran denies, insisting its nuclear ambitions are aimed at generating electricity so it that it can export more of its massive oil and gas reserves.

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*Await George Bush to come out and say something daft about it.

[Bartok]

This is a cover for them developing ballistic missile technology. I shit you not.

An Iran with ICBMs and nukes is not far off.

[egb_hibs]

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This is a cover for them developing ballistic missile technology. I shit you not.

An Iran with ICBMs and nukes is not far off.

of course it is. meanwhile anybody who points that out will be daft no doubt.

and when the israelis or yanks do something about it they will be warmongering scum of the earth.

[Stirlinghibee]

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of course it is. meanwhile anybody who points that out will be daft no doubt.

and when the israelis or yanks do something about it they will be warmongering scum of the earth.

Imagine having ICBM's and Nuclear weapons!!
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How terrible a nation that must be...

Yes, we should really do something about nations who have ICBM's and Nuclear weapons...

Imagine Nuclear weapons in the hands of a country that would use them...Just as well we have the Americans to sort all this out for us. They would never develop ICBM's or use Nuclear weapons.

To tell you the truth, If it was up to me I would go down to Coulport, break open the bunker and hand out a nuke to every single one of the nations in the UN. Let everybody have one and you get global detterence, no Iraqs, No Afghanistans, No South Ossetia's...

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Imagine having ICBM's and Nuclear weapons!!
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How terrible a nation that must be...

Yes, we should really do something about nations who have ICBM's and Nuclear weapons...

Imagine Nuclear weapons in the hands of a country that would use them...Just as well we have the Americans to sort all this out for us. They would never develop ICBM's or use Nuclear weapons.

To tell you the truth, If it was up to me I would go down to Coulport, break open the bunker and hand out a nuke to every single one of the nations in the UN. Let everybody have one and you get global detterence, no Iraqs, No Afghanistans, No South Ossetia's...

where does this irrational masochism come from?

it's possibly only those who enjoy a rich fantasy life in respect of the usa, that could fail to grasp the salient point that possession of ICBM's make a fuckload of difference depending on whose possession they're in.

this fallacious jibberish that is the non-argument that because america or russia have icbms we should not worry about iran gaining them is the stockholm syndrome on an olympian scale.

absolutely crazy, and very very sad.

and yes; its is fucking just as well - that in the absence of anything better - we have america to look after us while we prattle such decadent nonsense.

george orwell will be turning in his grave.

[Stirlinghibee]

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where does this irrational masochism come from?

it's possibly only those who enjoy a rich fantasy life in respect of the usa, that could fail to grasp the salient point that possession of ICBM's make a fuckload of difference depending on whose possession they're in.

this fallacious jibberish that is the non-argument that because america or russia have icbms we should not worry about iran gaining them is the stockholm syndrome on an olympian scale.

absolutely crazy, and very very sad.

and yes; its is fucking just as well - that in the absence of anything better - we have america to look after us while we prattle such decadent nonsense.

george orwell will be turning in his grave.

Ok EGB, you tell me which of the 26 nations invaded or bombed by the yanks since 1945 has nuclear weapons?

None of course!!

And tell me which nation is sheltering the resurgent Taliban , and the yanks wont dare attack?

Pakistan... and why is this??


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That's why.

The same reason none of the Arab states attack Israel any more.

So I would hands these out like candy to anyone that wants them. They stop wars. MAD actually works.

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Ok EGB, you tell me which of the 26 nations invaded or bombed by the yanks since 1945 has nuclear weapons?

None of course!!

And tell me which nation is sheltering the resurgent Taliban , and the yanks wont dare attack?

Pakistan... and why is this??


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That's why.

The same reason none of the Arab states attack Israel any more.

So I would hands these out like candy to anyone that wants them. They stop wars. MAD actually works.

oh dear God. you're actually arguing that making people like the taliban unassailable is a good thing?

[egb_hibs]

there is also the fact that icbm's in the hands of messianic lunatics, with a culture that venerates self-immolation in the process of attaching the enemy and with a leader who has stated his intention to annihilate a neighbouring state... is not strictly comparable to the US or the Russkis.

[Bartok]

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there is also the fact that icbm's in the hands of messianic lunatics, with a culture that venerates self-immolation in the process of attaching the enemy and with a leader who has stated his intention to annihilate a neighbouring state... is not strictly comparable to the US or the Russkis.

Exactly. MAD is a deterrent only to sane, responsible governments.

[Burbank Lilywhite]

Its not the nation that wants a 100 ICBM's that scares me. Its the nation that wants only one. And right now Iran strikes me as a nation that wants only one.

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Its not the nation that wants a 100 ICBM's that scares me. Its the nation that wants only one. And right now Iran strikes me as a nation that wants only one.

spot on; they want to annihilate the jews; and if it's left to europe, we will let them.

and after it's done we'll blame their corpses and the americans.