Iran has started the countdown to the launch a scientific observation satellite that is part of a programme the United States had previously described as a “provocation”.
“Beginning countdown to launch #Zafar_Satellite in the next few hours… In the Name of God,” Iran’s telecommunications minister, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
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