Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it launched 2nd satellite - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The latest wrinkle, however, is a demand Saturday from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Blinken offer written guarantees over Moscow's ability to continue trade with Iran as it faces sanctions over its war on Ukraine.
51% : The 2015 nuclear deal saw Iran put advanced centrifuges into storage under the watch of the International Atomic Energy Agency, while keeping its enrichment at 3.67 percent purity and its stockpile at only 300 kilograms (661 pounds) of uranium.
47% : "We are against war and imposition of sanctions, and it is clear that cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and any country, including Russia, should not be affected by the atmosphere of sanctions," Amirabdollahian said in the statement.
45% : The head of the US Space Command later dismissed that satellite as "a tumbling webcam in space" that wouldn't provide Iran vital intelligence -- though it showed Tehran's ability to successfully get into orbit after a series of setbacks.
45% : The US intelligence community's 2022 threat assessment, published Tuesday, claims such a satellite launch vehicle "shortens the timeline" to an intercontinental ballistic missile for Iran as it uses "similar technologies."
44% : However, the top negotiator for the European Union seemed to suggest whether the talks succeeded or failed now rested with the Islamic Republic.
43% : The talks also hope to get Iran to again agree to measures that drastically scaled back its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
39% : Iran, which has long said it does not seek nuclear weapons, previously maintained that its satellite launches and rocket tests do not have a military component.
38% : "We continue to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities that we judge would be necessary to produce a nuclear device," the 2022 US intelligence threat assessment said.
36% : The United States has alleged that Iran's satellite launches defy a UN Security Council resolution and has called on Tehran to undertake no activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
33% : US intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency say Iran abandoned an organized military nuclear program in 2003.
33% : Hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, a protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, apparently responded Tuesday to concern over Iran leaning too far toward Russia and China amid the standoff over the nuclear deal.

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