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Iran-backed militants launch missile attack on Iraq airbase, US soldiers injured Last week, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sent the research satellite Soraya into space. However, Britain, France, and Germany condemned that launch.
Notably West has repeatedly warned Iran against such launches, saying the same technology can be used for ballistic missiles, including ones designed to deliver a nuclear warhead. For instance, in 2020, Iran's first military satellite launch, Nour-1 drew a sharp rebuke from the US.
The US said Iran’s satellite launches defy a UN Security Council resolution and called on Tehran to undertake no activity involving ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. UN sanctions related to Iran’s ballistic missile program expired last October.
US strikes Iran-backed militia in Iraq after attacks on American troops Iran has countered that it is not seeking nuclear weapons and that its satellite and rocket launches are for civil or defence purposes only. Tehran maintains the largest arsenal of ballistic missiles in the Mideast, in part due to decades of sanctions following its 1979 Islamic Revolution and the US Embassy hostage crisis blocking it from advanced fighter jets and other weapon systems.Milestone Alert!
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