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 by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) April 25, 2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Saturday for the UN to extend its conventional arms embargo on Iran beyond its scheduled end in October, citing Tehran's recent launch of a military satellite. The lifting of the embargo was stipulated in the multi-nation Iranian nuclear deal concluded in 2015, but which the United States, under President Donald Trump, unilaterally renounced in 2018. "The world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism should not be allowed to buy and sell conventional weapons," Pompeo said in a statement Saturday. He said Iran's announcement Wednesday that it had orbited its first military satellite demonstrated that its space program -- which Tehran has long insisted is peaceful and civilian -- was in fact "neither peaceful nor entirely civilian." Pompeo said the technology used to launch the satellite -- dubbed Nour, or "light" in Persian -- was compatible with that used to launch ballistic missiles. "All peace-loving nations must reject Iran's development of ballistic-missile-capable technologies and join together to constrain Iran's dangerous missile programs," the secretary of state said. He called on the European Union to "sanction those individuals and entities working on Iran's missile programs." Pompeo's statement came at a time of sharp US-Iranian tensions, escalated last week after Washington accused its arch-foe of harassing US ships in the Gulf. Trump said Wednesday on Twitter that he had "instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea." Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which had announced the satellite launch, responded by warning the US of a "decisive response" to any such action.
Guards say Iran successfully launches first military satellite Tehran (AFP) April 22, 2020 Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced they had successfully launched the country's first military satellite on Wednesday, a programme that the US alleges is a cover for its missile development. "The first satellite of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been successfully launched into orbit by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," said the Guards' Sepahnews website. It said the satellite - dubbed the Nour - had been launched from the Qassed two-stage launcher from the Markazi desert, a vast exp ... read more
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