Irans New Satellites: The Pasdaran in Space

While Iranian boasts of advanced military weaponry are mostly overblown or just plain lies, evidently they have put a satellite into orbit. What it's functions are and how effective it is remain to be seen. I wonder just who helped the Iranians with this project; Russia?, North Korea?, Pakistan? Chinese? They certainly did nodevelope this ability with out considerable outside help.

This is a significant step forward in Iran's quest for regional and European domination. Placing even a basic satellite into orbit changes the balance of power in the region, and should elicit strong reactions from other Middle Eastern countries.

A reconnance capability would give Iran a powerful tool to detect and repell amny Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. This capability will encourage an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facalities before the satellite can become operational.

FROM POLITICALMAVINS.COM:

Irans New Satellites: The Pasdaran in Space
By Walid Phares (bio)


The launching of an Iranian satellite into orbit, said to be about “communications technology” and “earthquake monitoring,” would have been a normal news item not exceeding the greater news report about India landing a space craft on the moon last month. But according to news agencies around the world, Western chanceries and national security agencies have taken the development “seriously.” Associated Press and the BBC described reactions as “nervous.”

Although the debate about the value of Iranian space technology and commercial rocket capacity usually concludes that the Mullah regime is far away from reaching a respectable level, many defense analysts dismiss the issue as about the sole industrialization of the Islamic Republic: In fact it is about the “weaponization” of the satellite. Obviously this one launch may not be the crossing for the line, but the first step was accomplished and statements were made about the immediate following steps. The quasi consensus today is about the strategic intention of Tehran’s war room, solidly in the hands of the Pasdaran. As I argued in discussions I had on France 24 TV and the BBC this week, the space program is one component of a regional strategic deployment. Hence it deserves to be analyzed from this perspective.
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