Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has stressed that advancement in science and research, including in the aerospace field, is an inalienable right of the Iranian nation.

Iran�s Defense Ministry on Thursday announced that the country�s domestically-built satellite carrier rocket, Simorgh (Phoenix), successfully launched three research devices in a space research mission that scored yet another achievement for the Islamic Republic�s civilian space program.

Later on Thursday, the US State Department said Washington �remains concerned with Iran�s development of space launch vehicles.� It also claimed that such satellite launches would violate a UN Security Council resolution, calling on the Islamic Republic to steer clear of any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads.

On Friday, Iran�s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh condemned comments by the White House, stressing that scientific and research progress, including in the field of aerospace, is the Iranian nation�s inalienable right and that such meddlesome statements would not break Iranians' resolve to progress in that field.

 

Source: Mehr