Iran successfully launches indigenous Chamran 1 satellite into space

[perihelions]

The smaller-diameter versions of their solid-fuel missiles were recently shipped to Russia and will (US assesses) be used against Ukraine and Ukrainian civilians in the coming weeks.

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/39...

I'll keep to myself my thoughts on the Iranian ballistic missile program, because they're off topic for HN. I'm not going to be celebrating this achievement.

[niemandhier]

I wish Iran and Israel could just resolve their issues by competing who reaches the moon first or who can dig the deepest hole.

[compsciphd]

Iran and Israel did get along before the Islamic revolution.

[aerodog]

Israel has won the hole competition

[euroderf]

I wonder, did everybody get along just fine at the Olympics ?

[newsclues]

Dual use technology competition furthers nuclear power.

[aussieguy1234]

Not suggesting anything here but the tech to launch satellites is very similar to the tech used to launch ICBMs.

[vbezhenar]

Congratulations! It's awesome to see this great nation strive.

[liamwire]

It’s awesome to see totalitarian theocracies make advances in technologies that have parallel military uses?

[gryzzly]

the nation is oppressed, there were over 800 executions in 2023, most political. It wages wars through proxies that destroy lives in the locations where they are active. It has tortured and beaten up its citizens for as much as wearing a hijab wrongly. Are you actually an Islamist Revolutionary Guard or aligned with North Korea or Putin’s government to say that this is awesome?

[Epskampie]

Do you think that Iran would do any better given the opportunity? The very fact that you where able to freely learn of these attrocities commited committed by your own leaders, is only due to you living in a democratic country. Where you to live in Iran, or China, Russia or any other dictatorship for that matter, the situation would be very different.

No one should deny that that is plenty wrong with the western world and it's actions, but to suggest that a totalitarian regime, that engages in suppression of women and gruesome violence against protestors, is somehow equal or even superior is just plain wrong.

[wiseowise]

Who said anything about NATO or US?