Iran To Launch 2 More Rockets (ICBMS)

From Ahmadinejad’s fans at the AFP:

A large rocket strongly resembling Iran’s missile Shahab-3 after being fired from the country’s first space centre in a desert area in the northern Semnan province.

Iran says to launch two more rockets in space

by Siavosh Ghazi

February 11, 2008

TEHRAN (AFP) Iran is to launch two more rockets into space in the next few months, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Monday, after a firing of a rocket earlier this month sparked international concern.

“Two other rockets will be launched so that we can then send a satellite into space,” Ahmadinejad said at a rally in Tehran broadcast live on state television.

“We home [sic] that Iran’s first home-produced satellite will be launched in the summer,” he added, reiterating a prediction made by other Iranian officials who said the satellite would be launched in May.

On February 4, Iran fired a rocket into space to mark the opening of its first space centre, triggering swift condemnation from the United States amid continued tensions over the Iranian nuclear drive.

Ahmadinejad hailed the launch of the rocket, named Kavoshgar-1, as a success and for the first time gave some technical details about its launch.

“The first rocket that was launched had three parts. It was a success,” he said in the speech marking the 29th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

He said the first section of the rocket detached after 90 seconds and returned to earth with the help of a parachute while the second entered the earth’s atmosphere after 300 seconds.

“The third section of the rocket, which contained the probe, was sent towards orbit.”

“The probe is sending information on wind, temperature, pressure to allow the sending of new probes into space,” he added…

And the world is allowing this why?