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TEHRAN, Apr 10 - Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi says the country plans to launch three domestically-developed satellites into orbit as it presses ahead with its aerospace program despite US warnings.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Speaking in an exclusive interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum in the Swiss city of Geneva on Tuesday, Azari Jahromi stated that Tehran would not back down from launching the satellites, roundly dismissing US allegations that such activity is a cover for ballistic missile development.
“The rockets which have currently been developed in Iran for carrying satellites are not something that are a cover for another kind of rocket activity,” he said.
“Because if Iran wants to have missile activity it's something that it is doing openly. It's not something that is hidden. It's part of our right to defense,” the Iranian minister pointed out.
Earlier in the day, President of Iran's Space Research Center, Hossein Samimi, said Nahid-1 and Nahid-2 telecommunication satellites besides Pars-1 remote sensing satellite would be ready for launch by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2020).
Samimi highlighted that Nahid-1 satellite will be ready to be sent into orbit by mid-June, while Pars-1 will be prepared by mid-January 2020. Nahid-2 satellite will be launched into orbit by March 2020.
Iran launched its first locally-built satellite, Omid (Hope), in 2009. The country also sent its first bio-capsule containing living creatures into space in February 2010, using a Kavoshgar-3 (Explorer-3) carrier.
In February 2015, Iran placed its domestically-made Fajr (Dawn) satellite into orbit, which is capable of taking and transmitting high-quality photos to stations on Earth.
Iran’s satellite launches come despite threats by the United States that argues such launches ran counter to the 2015 nuclear deal between and the 5+1 group as well as the relevant UN Security Council resolution that endorsed it.
In response, Iran has stressed that there is no military aspect to its satellite activity and that its missile tests are not banned under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or UNSC Resolution 2231, because the missiles are not designed to deliver nuclear warheads.
Source: Pars Today
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