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US official: Iranian satellite launch was 'a dramatic failure' | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com - 8/19/2008
US official: Iranian satellite launch was 'a dramatic failure' | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
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Iran's attempt to launch a dummy satellite into orbit earlier this week was a "dramatic failure" that fell far short of the country's assertions of success, Reuters quoted a US official as saying on Tuesday. "The attempted launch failed," the official said. "The vehicle failed shortly after liftoff and in no way reached its intended position. It could be characterized as a dramatic failure." ...

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Israel Matzav:  Iranian satellite launch 'a dramatic failure'

Newshoggers.com:  Imminent Threat Or Dramatic Failure?

All:  Iran marches on

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Iranian satellite launch 'a dramatic failure'
Israel Matzav — Iranian satellite launch 'a dramatic failure' A US official told al-Reuters on Tuesday that Iran's satellite launch on Sunday was ' a dramatic failure .' "The attempted launch failed," the official said. "The vehicle failed shortly after liftoff and in no way reached its intended position. It could be characterized as a dramatic failure." ... Iranian television showed the rocket on its launch pad, but did not show the actual lift-off. "The failed launch shows that the purported Iranian space program is in its nascent stages at best - they have a long way to go," the US official said. [image] On Monday, Israeli analysts said the Iranian self-professed progress ...

Imminent Threat Or Dramatic Failure?
Newshoggers.com — ... Umm...about that launch. US opfficials are describing that attempt to launch a dummy satellite into orbit as a "dramatic failure" which hardly managed to leave its launch pad. Push the clock on Iran's entirely hypothetical ability to load an entirely hypothetical nuke (that US intelligence and the IAEA say they're not even trying to get) into an ICBM back a few more years into the mythycal never-never of amprphous fearmongering. ...

Iran marches on
All — Although I am not writing more essays at this time for my blog, I am continuing to post articles on the topics heretofore covered in my blog which my readers will no doubt find interesting. Cyprus still has the Iranian arms ship and has not decided what to do with it yet, but query whether this is more of a distraction than anything, the same way that the Hamas War was in the long run a distraction from the point of view of Iran, to take the world's attention off its drive for nuclear capability to threaten Israel, Asia and Europe. Nuclear weapons, as I have written before, in the hands of those who have a religious belief that using them will hasten an armageddon ...

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