Iranian satellite launch vehicle.

[Blob]

Iran has converted its most powerful ballistic missile into a satellite launch vehicle.
The The 30-ton Iranian space launcher has recently been assembled and "will liftoff soon" with an Iranian satellite, according to Alaoddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
The move toward an independent space launch capacity is likely to ratchet up concern in the U.S. and Europe about Iran's strategic capabilities and intents. Orbiting its own satellite would send a powerful message throughout the Muslim world about the Shiite regime in Tehran.
U.S. agencies believe the launcher to be a derivation of the 800-1,000-mi. range Shahab 3 missile.

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[Doodler]

There goes the neighborhood...

[timeless]

Like Bush said, "As the world steps up, the US will step down..."

Or something like that... ahem...

[Doodler]

Meh, just more spacejunk for the time being. A technology demonstrator. We'll see where it goes.

[JustAFriend]

Remember that all of our early satellite rockets were converted ICBMs.

(And you can bet that a number of our current models have been re-targeted to Iranian coordinates in case the numbskulls over there do anything REALLY stupid....)