First military sat launch means SPACE CLUB membership for embattled Iran, but US may respond to it with MORE SANCTIONS

Strangled by America’s maximum

Strangled by America’s maximum pressure campaign, Iran was still able to send a military satellite into orbit, spelling the start of its space era. But from the US, the achievement will be met with only one thing: more sanctions.

Dubbed Noor (Persian for ‘light’), the military satellite was on Wednesday morning propelled to 425km above ground by a multi-stage rocket launched by the aerospace arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

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