Iran says it has launched an imaging satellite into orbit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Since then, the IAEA has said Iran has enough uranium enriched to near-weapons grade levels to build "several" nuclear weapons if it chooses to do so.
51% : The U.S. intelligence community's 2022 threat assessment claims the development of satellite launch vehicles "shortens the timeline" for Iran to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile because it uses similar technology.
49% : Details in the video corresponded with a Guard 205 miles northeast of the capital, Tehran.
49% : Over the past decade, Iran has sent several short-lived satellites into orbit and in 2013 launched a monkey into space.
46% : Tensions are already high with Western nations over Iran's nuclear program, which has steadily advanced since Trump five years ago withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers and restored crippling sanctions on Iran.
44% : Iran has always denied seeking nuclear weapons, and says its space program, like its nuclear activities, is for purely civilian purposes.
44% : Iran has expressed willingness to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, but says the U.S. should first ease the sanctions.
42% : Western sanctions bar Iran from importing advanced spying technology.
40% : Iran has had a series of failed launches in recent years.
40% : Both countries have said they would take military action if necessary to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
36% : Iran is also building a new underground nuclear facility that would likely be impervious to U.S. or Israeli airstrikes.
35% : U.S. intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency say Iran abandoned an organized military nuclear program in 2003.
25% : A launchpad rocket explosion later that year drew the attention of then-President Donald Trump, who taunted Iran with a tweet showing what appeared to be a U.S. surveillance photo of the site.

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