American Researcher Reveals: Iran Conducted Likely Failed Satellite Missile Launch
A senior researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington says Iran has once again conducted a “likely unsuccessful” launch of a satellite missile.
Due Ashmerler on Tuesday, March 1st, posted a satellite image on Twitter stating that Iran’s attempt to launch another missile into space has likely failed.
According to him, the dark marks visible on the platform in this image indicate an explosion, and since Iranian Islamic Republic officials have made no comments about this launch, which took place on February 27th from the “Imam Khomeini” space terminal, it can be said that it was unsuccessful.
Despite the published image showing the date February 27, 2022 (the 8th of Esfand 1400), Ali Akbar Raifipour, a propaganda figure of the Islamic Republic, claimed in a tweet that “these images are not new and belong to the past” and wrote: “We need to see what the Americans’ goal is in publishing this old image, especially in the midst of the Ukraine war.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly attempted to send the “Simorgh” satellite missile, which it calls “civilian research purposes,” into space and place it in orbit, but has not yet succeeded.
Previously, the launch of a satellite missile into space by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has faced reactions from the United States and the United Nations Security Council.
A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, in response to a question from the Farsi service of Voice of America regarding Iran’s satellite missile launch, called this matter “a significant concern in line with the proliferation of nuclear weapons” and considered it a “violation of UN Security Council resolutions.”
Source: Voice of America
