Iran's slow but sure missile advance

Iran's apparently successful launch of its own satellite by its own rocket shows how it is slowly but surely mastering the missile technology that the West and Israel fear one day might be available as a delivery system for a nuclear weapon. It also shows, as Iran itself has triumphantly proclaimed, that the UN sanctions against Iran, which include sanctions against its missile programme as well as its nuclear activities, have not stopped this event.

[because the UN has evolved into an organization that seats countries like China and Russia on the security council with veto authority]

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