Defense Tech: Ayatollahs in Orbit: "Tehran is about to send its first satellite into space, says the Jerusalem-based Isracast.

By the end of September a Russian Cosmos 3 missile will be launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome 800 km north of Moscow, carrying two Iranian satellites into orbit. Although the satellites are claimed to be for meteorological and experimental purposes, experts believe that one of them will possess surveillance capabilities allowing it to observe American and Israeli military facilities throughout the Middle East..."

(Via a DefenseTech.)