Defense Ministry - Nkorea Rocket Launch Draws More Worry Than Iran's

By ERIC TALMADGE

The Associated Press

TOKYO Just a couple months ago, anywhere between festivities with the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a great Iranian catapult roared off your military launch pad in addition to located a 110-pound Earth statement satellite directly into orbit. The U.S. State Department grumbled about achievable missile applications, but which was virtually it.

FILE - In this specific Feb. 3, the new year archive photo, the models with Iranian-built satellites, Navid, left, Tolo, center, and also Mesbah-2, usually are seen, inside Tehran, Iran. In February, 2012, Iran successfully launched a Navid satellite towards orbit using a missile launch-vehicle labeled the particular Safir. Amid the particular festivities with the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian explode roared down a navy establish pad and positioned the 110-pound Earth observation satellite straight into orbit. (AP Photo/File) FILE - This archive image released about June 16, 2011, by means of the Iranian Defense Ministry , boasts for you to exhibit this Safir, or Ambassador, satellite lifting rocket, center, which will bring Iran's Rasad, as well as Observation, satellite towards our planet orbit, inside an undisclosed location. Iran launched its initial satellite aboard an Iranian-built rocket last season and it's second inside June 2011. In February, 2012, that efficiently presented the Navid satellite straight into orbit having a missile launch-vehicle called this Safir. (AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry ,Vahid Reza Alaei, File) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. FILE - This report image published June 16, 2011, with the Iranian Defense Ministry , states exhibit launching that Safir, as well as Ambassador, satellite carrier, which carries Iran's Rasad, or even Observation, satellite directly into planet orbit, throughout a great undisclosed location. Iran released their first satellite aboard an Iranian-built rocket in 2009 and their second inside June, 2011. In February, 2012, that successfully presented a Navid satellite into orbit with a missile launch-vehicle named your Safir. (AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry ,Vahid Reza Alaei, File) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE Election 2012: Across this nation

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