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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/world/middleeast/19iran.html
Iran Offers to Help Muslim Countries Launch Satellites; Satellite Rocket Launch Fails
[New York Times] Nazila Fathi and Thom Shanker - A day after Iran declared that it had test fired a new rocket capable of launching a satellite, the country said Monday that it was prepared to help other Muslim countries send up satellites. However, military officials in Washington have concluded that Sunday's Iranian missile launching was a failure. The first stage of the missile performed successfully, but the second stage flew off wildly, destroying the top of the missile and its nose cone.