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US hits Iran with fresh sanctions over space launch
[Al Jazeera] The US has hit Iran with new sanctions in response to its launch of a satellite-carrying rocket into space.The ballistic missiles sanctions, announced on Friday, target six Iranian subsidiaries of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, which the US treasury department says is "central" to Iran's ballistic missiles programme. On Thursday, Iran successfully tested a rocket that can deliver satellites into orbit. The same day, Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? showed footage of the firing of the rocket, mounted on a launchpad, carrying pictures of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Theocratic Republic, and Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-29 |
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