{"id":274404,"date":"2010-02-04T00:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T05:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/iran-s-ahmadinejad-unveils-satellites-disingenuous-offer-uranium-39029\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T00:38:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T05:38:18","slug":"irans-ahmadinejad-unveils-satellites-and-disingenuous-offer-on-uranium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/274404","title":{"rendered":"Iran?s Ahmadinejad Unveils Satellites and Disingenuous Offer on Uranium"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 02.03.10 01:29 PM posted by James Phillips<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iran-rocket-100203.jpg">\"\"<\/p>Iran\u0092s government today announced the successful launching of a research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles and worms into space. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trumpeted the launch as a \u0093very big event\u0094 and promised on state-controlled television that \u0093The scientific arena is where we could defeat the (West\u0092s) domination.\u0094 The launch of the Explorer-3 rocket is part of Iran\u0092s ambitious space program, which concerns many Iran-watchers because the same technology used to launch research rockets and satellites can also be used to deliver warheads in ballistic missiles. Significantly, the launch <ahref="http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100203\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_iran_11">was announced by Iran\u0092s Defense Minister, General Ahmed Vahidi.<\/p>\n

Ahmadinejad also unveiled three Iranian-built satellites and a new booster rocket that reportedly is capable of carrying a satellite into orbit about 300 miles above the earth. The ceremony took place on the \u0093National Day of Space and Technology\u0094 which is part of the ten day run-up to the February 11 anniversary of Iran\u0092s 1979 revolution. During the same period last year, Iran launched an Iranian-built satellite into space with an Iranian-built rocket for the first time.<\/p>\n

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The space launch celebration came the day after Ahmadinejad reversed course and eased Tehran\u0092s rejection of a proposed deal brokered by the International Atomic Energy Agency that would involve Iran transferring the bulk of its low-enriched uranium to be refined overseas and then returned for use in a medical-research reactor. Tehran originally had accepted the deal \u0093in principle\u0094 last October before rejecting it and making an unacceptable counter-proposal last year. The Obama Administration had supported the deal as a means of buying time for a possible diplomatic deal on Iran\u0092s nuclear efforts. <ahref="http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/02\/AR2010020200640.html">Now Ahmadinejad has zig-zagged once again, proclaiming: \u0093If we allow them to take it, there is no problem.\u0094<\/p>\n

U.S. officials understandably remain wary of Ahmadinejad\u0092s tactical shift, saying that if Iran has agreed to the deal, Tehran should officially notify the IAEA. Many suspect that Ahmadinejad\u0092s public offer is a calculated move to derail efforts to escalate sanctions against Iran at the United Nations Security Council by giving China and Russia more diplomatic cover for further stalling a long-overdue sanctions resolution.<\/p>\n

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On 02.03.10 01:29 PM posted by James Phillips <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iran-rocket-100203.jpg"><\/p>Iran\u0092s government today announced the successful launching of a research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles and worms into space. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trumpeted the launch as a \u0093very big event\u0094 and promised on state-controlled television that \u0093The scientific arena is where we could defeat the (West\u0092s) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}