Iran Test Launches Kavoshgar-1 Space Rocket

Iran launched a rocket on Monday designed to send its first homemade research satellite into orbit in the next year, state television said.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad read out the launch countdown before the rocket blasted off to chants of "God is greatest" by an audience of officials in a control room, state TV reported.

TV footage showed the rocket soaring into the sky from a desert launch pad, leaving a vapor trail. A parachute appeared to drop from the rocket shortly after the launch. State television gave few details about the rocket.

State media said the research satellite, called Omid (Hope), would be launched by March 2009.

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[DarkReapersGrim]

@johndodrill I want to see israel as a nuclear target NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DarkReapersGrim]

@DuvdevanUnit The United States...leading the world in hypocrisy (claiming to want democracy and yet funding israel- a country which continues to violate even the basic human rights, and Arab governments who continue to silence critical media). Arab people despise their governments but love the government of Iran because the government of Iran is courageous against cowardice bullies.

[pbptrick]

It's look good. They are smart people.

[Mostafaxcclu]

Shia Muslim hahahahahaha.........

[SuperTulumba]

support for Iran from Serbia !!!!!

[alihazara3]

we need iran to make a new Hezbullah in afghanistan fro shia of afghanistan

[TheRivern]

@ShiaMuslim4lyfe yea totally, lets make our only earth posion for all our children. i'd like to advance a nuclear weapon up your ass for saying such things. are you really that fucking stupid? fuck! watch a zeitgeist movie or something.

[rickcain2320]

Why do all the announcers yell?

[anonymoose84]

@ShiaMuslim4lyfe

Why does anyone need nuclear weapons nowadays?..

[OneProvidence]

@89jn Oh wait, I forgot about the bombing of sovereign states for wealth plunder.

Human rights don't really exist in USA either, which claims itself as a role-model for human rights. so what's your point? Besides, USA supports KSA, and has never criticized it. Talk about double-standards.