{"id":24261,"date":"2020-04-22T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T09:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/irans-guard-says-it-launched-military-satellite-amid-u-s-tensions\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T09:33:37","slug":"irans-guard-says-it-launched-military-satellite-amid-u-s-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24261","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Guard says it launched military satellite amid U.S. tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The two-stage satellite launch took off from Iran\u2019s Central Desert, says Revolutionary Guard.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/irans-guard-says-it-launched-military-satellite-amid-us-tensions\/article31402817.ece\">AP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday it launched a military satellite into orbit amid wider tensions with the U.S., a successful launch after months of failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no immediate independent confirmation of the launch of the satellite, which the Guard called \u201cNoor,\u201d or light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guard on its official said the satellite successfully reached an orbit of 425 kilometers above the Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two-stage satellite launch took off from Iran\u2019s Central Desert, the Guard said, without elaborating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The launch comes amid tensions between Tehran and Washington over its collapsing nuclear deal and after a U.S. drone strike killed Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has suffered several failed satellite launches in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, the Guard acknowledged it had a tense encounter with U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf last week, but alleged without offering evidence that American forces sparked the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-stage satellite launch took off from Iran\u2019s Central Desert, says Revolutionary Guard. AP Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday it launched a military satellite into orbit amid wider tensions with the U.S., a successful launch after months of failures. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the launch of the satellite, which the Guard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}