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Source: https://www.state.gov/irans-space-program-is-dangerous-not-peaceful/
U.S.: Iran's Space Program Is Dangerous, Not Peaceful
(U.S. State Department) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday: "This week's launch of a military satellite by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, makes clear what we have said all along: Iran's space program is neither peaceful nor entirely civilian." "This satellite launch vehicle and others launched before it incorporate technologies identical to, and interchangeable with, ballistic missiles, including longer-range systems such as intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). No country has ever pursued an ICBM capability except for the purpose of delivering nuclear weapons." "All peace-loving nations must reject Iran's development of ballistic-missile capable technologies and join together to constrain Iran's dangerous missile programs. As a start, nations should support extending the UN conventional arms embargo on Iran, which is set to expire this October. The world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism should not be allowed to buy and sell conventional weapons."