In theory, Iran is under enough international economic sanctions that no one should be selling them any kind of advanced rocketry equipment. Which isn’t going to stop them from developing their own, and that’s what they’re claiming they’ve done — to the point that they claim to have launched a “research” satellite into orbit. A good guess is that its goal is to remain in geosynchronous orbit over Tel Aviv to “research” its own telemetry and orbital reconnaissance capabilities.
But, I have some constructive criticism, دوستهایم: next time don’t forget to move the ground crew’s van out of the blast radius of the rocket. (Farsi translation of “my friends”.)
