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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has launched its first domestically made satellite into orbit, the president said Tuesday, a step forward for a fledgling space program that has been watched with concern abroad.

Like its nuclear program, Iran's space ambitions worry world powers because the same rocket technology used to carry satellites to orbit can also deliver warheads.

For nearly a decade, Iran has expressed an intention to develop a national space program. As it seeks to expand its influence in the Middle East, Iran touts such technological successes as signs it can advance despite U.S. and U.N. sanctions against it over its nuclear program.

In a year in which hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces a tough election battle to stay in power, Monday night's satellite launch also gave him another symbol of national pride to hold up even as falling oil prices batter the economy and his popularity.

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This is all the more reason for President Obama to reach out for a handshake with Iran! Maybe we should supplement their space ambitions and bring them onboard the International Space Station! Think of what Iran could contribute! Criminy Sake...I don;t even know what to think...Obama's liberal agenda is in the process of ruining our country and he's only been in office for 3 weeks...and he wants to try to befriend the Iranians, who cannot be befriended...it's all ass-backward and there's nothing I (or any of us) can do about it.