US acknowledges Iranian satellite has successfully reached orbit

US acknowledges Iranian satellite has successfully reached orbit
The Noor-3 satellite has reached orbit (IRIB via AP)

The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week.

The launch resembled others previously criticised by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile programme.

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