Iran launches satellite-carrying rocket, say state media
Launch comes amid U.S. criticism of Iran's ballistic missile tests/ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, centre, who was Iran's president from 2005 to 2013, gestures toward a model of Iran's new domestically built light booster rocket, named Simorgh, in Tehran on Feb. 3, 2010. (Associated Press)/ Iran successfully launched a satellite-carrying rocket into space on Thursday, the country's state media reported without elaborating. Iranian state television described the launch as involving a Simorgh rocket that is capable of carrying a satellite weighing 250 ...
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