(Times-UK) Philippe Naughton - Iran successfully launched a can of worms, a rat and two turtles into space Wednesday, prompting a jubilant President Ahmadinejad to brag that the Islamic Republic would soon be sending its own astronauts to orbit Earth. The ambitious Iranian space program worries Western experts who fear the same technology could be used to deliver atomic warheads.
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