Images suggest Iran launched satellite despite US criticism

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Source: Associated Press

Images suggest Iran launched satellite despite US criticism

By JON GAMBRELL
February 6, 2019

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran appears to have attempted a second satellite launch despite U.S. criticism that its space program helps it develop ballistic missiles, satellite images released Thursday suggest. Iran has not acknowledged conducting such a launch.

Images released by the Colorado-based company DigitalGlobe show a rocket at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran’s Semnan province on Tuesday. Images from Wednesday show the rocket was gone with what appears to be burn marks on its launch pad.

Iranian state media did not immediately report on the rocket launch, though such delays have happened in previous launches.

Iran has said it would launch its Doosti, or “Friendship,” satellite. A launch in January failed to put another satellite, Payam or “Message,” into orbit.

The U.S. alleges such launches defy a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on Iran to undertake no activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

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These satellite images show a circular launchpad for the Safir rocket at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran. The image on the right, taken on Feb. 6, shows a burn scar. The image on the left, from Jan. 21, does not.
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1. What would one expect? When trump unilaterally disavows the Iran nuclear agreement, and starts

to reimplement sanctions against Iran, why should they care?

When we invaded Iraq based on a lie, we destabilized the entire Middle East by that action

President Obama started to undo that damage, and within two years of the trump and Republican rule, they have essentially undone everything President Obama has accomplished, and as an added dividend create new alliances between Iran and Russia and China