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Iran Announces Manned Space Mission Plans
Lucas123 writes "After Iran's first attempt to launch a satellite on Sunday fell noticeably short of the Earth's atmosphere (though Iran claimed it made it into orbit), government officials stated they intend to put a man into space within 10 years. The long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into space can also be used for launching weapons. Iran says it has no intention to use the technology for launching nuclear warheads."
I am going to call you a Waaaambulance. Cry me a river Iran! It was Ayatollah Khomeini who overthrew the Shah! Of course, that idiot Jimmy Carter didn't help one bit. Regarding their war with Iraq, tough! It takes two to tangle. You know why Arab states don't like Iran, its because Iranian Shi'a Islam is considered heretical and destabilizing. No, I am not a Muslim, but both my Arab and Iranian friends explained this to me. Nukes in India and Pakistan are of no consequence to Iran. Iran is too busy threatening Israel and the US. The US is there to remind the little man that we can whip his ass in a heart beat. We just don't want to bomb the 35% of the population that is under 30. Iran gets no pity party from me, but its people who are yearning to be free do!
are worried that Iran "might" attack someone once they get their space program off the ground yet you live in a country that is already destroying other nation in the name of democracy and freedom.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
with a budget of $50 and use a hedgehog as a proof of concept to secure further funding.
50 dollars? Are you kidding me? It's going to cost at least $300, Photoshop is expensive after all.
Who the hell modded this insightful??? The poster has completely ignored our historical interference in the Iranian government and only posts about the repercussions of said interference. The Iranians have every right to feel the way they do given the history of what the US has done in that country. I'm not Iranian, but the few that I have met have been (mostly) pretty decent people. The US holds a lot of blame in its own hands for the bad relations.
You are suffering from an "American Short Memory Syndrome". Iran used to be a secular republic before UK and US planted the Shah in the first place. This is what the GP is referring to.
It was the years of repression by the Shah regime which brought the Ajatollahs into power. If UK and US would have left the original Democracy in place the islamic revolution would have never happened.
We are currently dealing with the fallout from 40+ years of US/UK sponsored dictatorships around the world. While some places like Latin America are slowly shrugging off the worst of it, the middle east is still in the "chickens coming home to roost and having diarrhea" phase. Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon - you name it.
This is still continuing though we prop democracies now. All early post-iron-curtain governments in Eastern Europe were propped with suitcases full of green bucks. All velvet/pink/blue etc "bloodless" revolutions were rehearsed and organised. It is too early to say what exactly are we going to "eat" with this, but we surely will. Hopefully it will not be as indigestible as the current mess with two nuclear states on the verge of going renegade.
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Arabs and Iranians just don't like each other. The first because of all the incursions of the Persian empire, the second because of the Arab conquest from the 7th century.
The thing that is worst for real Iranians is that they are basically ruled by people which have more to do with Arabian than Persian culture.