May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... used as the basis for Iran’s space launch programme, using names such as Kavoshgar-1, IRIS and Safir. Safir Iranian space launch vehicle. Iran’s space programme Much of Iran’s development of ballistic missiles and space launchers is still shrouded...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... member South Africa in 2011. The best commentaries on Iran’s space programme used to be in Russian, in Novosti Kosmonavtiki. Space commentator Henk Smid [see box] visited Iran’s space programme twice, but few people have followed in his footsteps...
