Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

August 4, 2017

Why Iran Is Trying to Put a Satellite into Orbit

One step away from an ICBM.

Tehran claims that last week it successfully launched a Simorgh rocket, designed for putting a satellite into space; according to the U.S. military, the launch was a failure. Even if so, writes Farzin Nadimi, the Islamic Republic, no doubt with help from North Korea, is growing close to mastering the technology for such launches—the same technology needed for an intercontinental ballistic missile:

SaveGift