Iran recently launched a rocket and capsule into space, according to the official Iranian news agency. The capsule is designed to carry animals, and Iran plans to send a monkey into space, but this test flight carried no animals.
Iran has big plans for its manned spaceflight program. The goals are to put a man in space by 2020, and a man on the moon by 2025.
Some political analysts suspect Iran is using its space program as a sort of cover to develop a rocket capability to deliver bombs at least to Europe, and possibly to anywhere on Earth. Iran is already a strengthening regional power, and a manned program would increase the nation's prestige in the world even without taking the military step. Whether Iran would take that next step remains to be seen.
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