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September 18, 2020

Iran’s Space Program Is Far from Benign

The goal: to become a nuclear power on par with Russian and China.

In April, the Islamic Republic launched a military satellite into space for the first time. The launch confirmed what many experts have long suspected: that the regime’s Revolutionary Guard has been conducting a secret space program parallel to the country’s civilian one. In fact, argues Uzi Rubin, Tehran’s plans to develop military space technologies likely go back to the 1980s, and its ambitions include developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs):

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