Iran expressed regret Sunday for the death of six US astronauts in the space shuttle disaster, saying politics should not get in the way of humanitarianism, but it made no mention of an Israeli who also died. Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi extended Iran's condolences to the "US and Indian astronauts" aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia which broke up on re-entry Saturday, in a reference to an Indian-born astronaut among the six Americans. But he made no reference to the death of Ilan Ramon, the first astronaut into space from Iran's archfoe Israel.
I know souls are supposed to be invisible, but if they weren't you'd still need a microscope to have a look at Asefi's. |