Iran eyes 'the high ground: Tehran moves closer to joining the space race and putting satellites into orbit, a breakthrough that could give it intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The Middle East › Nbr. 2007, January 2007
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Iran eyes 'the high ground: Tehran moves closer to joining the space race and putting satellites into orbit, a breakthrough that could give it intercontinental ballistic missiles.
ISRAEL'S AIR FORCE commander, Major General Eliezer Shdeky, warned earlier in the year that the Jewish state faces a threat to its military and commercial satellites in the coming decade. His comments followed China's successful test of an anti-satellite weapon in January that destroyed an ageing weather satellite and heightened the prospect of an arms race in space, the 'high ground' of military strategy in recent years.
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