Iranian state television said on Sunday that Tehran had launched a solid combustion rocket in space, pulling a Washington reprimand before the planned resumption of standby discussions on nuclear teheran flags with the world powers .
We do not know when or where the rocket was launched, but the announcement came after satellite photos showed preparations for the Spaceport Imam Khomeini in the Iranian Rural Province, the site of the frequent Iranian attempts to put a satellite in orbit.
The media managed by the State broadcast spectacular images of The Blastoff in the context of increased tensions on the nuclear program of Tehran, which takes place in advance under the reduction of international surveillance.
Iran had previously recognized that he had planned more tests for the satellite carrier rocket, which she first launched in February of last year.
Ahmad Hosseini, spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Defense, said that Zuljanah, a 25.5-meter long rocket capable of carrying a 220-kilograms (485 pound), would collect data in a low orbit. He was not immediately clear if he had reached his planned orbit. Zuljanah bears the name of Imam Hussein’s horse, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.
The White House said that she was aware of Iran’s announcement and criticized this decision as “useless and destabilizing”. He said he was determined to use sanctions and other measures to prevent other progress in the Iranian ballistic missile program.
The launch comes just one day after the head of the European Union foreign policy, Josep Borrell, went to Tehran to put pressure on the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program which takes place for months. There are still a few important snack points, including Tehran’s request that Washington raises terrorism of sanctions against his paramilitary revolution.
Borrell said on Saturday that discussions on the nuclear agreement will resume in an unnamed Persian Gulf country in the coming days, the Iranian media reporting that Qatar would probably host negotiations.
Former President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear agreement in 2018 and reproduced overwhelming sanctions against Iran. Tehran responded by considerably increasing his nuclear work and now enriches uranium closer than ever weapon quality levels.
In a new escalation which limits the opinion of the international community on its nuclear program, Iran has withdrawn more than two dozen cameras from the International Atomic Energy Agency of its nuclear sites this month. The agency director called The Move as a “fatal blow” to the nuclear tatter agreement.
While the confrontations continue between Iran and the West after the disentangling of the nuclear agreement, the launches of Tehran rocket made the alarm in Washington. The United States warns that such launches have resolution of the United Nations Security Council calling on Iran to avoid any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of providing nuclear weapons.
The evaluation of threats in 2022 of the United States Community, published in March, says that such a launch of satellite “shortens the calendar” to an intercontinental ballistic missile for Iran because it uses “similar technologies”.
Iran, which has long said that it was not looking for nuclear weapons, maintains its satellite launches and rocket tests have no military component.
Even if the Iranian government has sharpened its accent on space, sending several short -term satellites to orbit and in 2013 launching a monkey in space, the program has experienced recent problems. There have been five consecutive failed launches for the Simorgh program, a type of rocket carrying by satellite. A fire at Imam Khomeini Spaceport in February 2019 also killed three researchers.
The launch ramp used in preparations for the launch of the Zuljanah rocket remains marked from an explosion in August 2019 which even attracted Trump’s attention at the time. He then tweeted what seemed to be a classified surveillance image of launch failure. The February satellite images suggested a failed launch of Zuljanah earlier this year, although Iran did not recognize it.
Meanwhile, the Iranian paramilitary revolutionary guardian in April 2020 revealed his own secret space program by successfully launching an orbit satellite. The custody operates its own military infrastructure parallel to the regular armed forces of Iran.
