Iran to launch communication satellite soon

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Hmm. Talk about making dual use technology.... Reactors for power, and now sats in orbit.

-S

http://arabia.ndtv.com/Story.aspx?pa...WEN20080062716

Iran has the technology to develop satellites and would soon send a communication satellite into the orbit, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said, official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.

"Iran has obtained the technology to build satellites and will use its know-how to launch its first remote sensing telecommunication satellite into space," the president told a gathering in the central Iranian province of Arak on Saturday....