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Posted by Laura Major on February 4, 2010 at 12:40am
Today Iran launched a rat, two turtles, and worms on board a satellite into outer space. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated, "It is a great job that living organisms can be sent into space. We do experiments on them and they return to Earth." However, the U.S. and British Foreign Office did not react kindly to Iran's experiment. They worry that Iran's past history of testing long-range missiles will combine their satellite technology. The animals carried on the satellite were monitored according to Iranian space officials and that when they returned to Earth they were studied by scientists. This event speaks softly yet strongly about how each country's government feels towards the other in terms of threat.
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