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16 Sep 2013 18:00

What will be next? The bezoar ibex? Dugong? Golden jackal? The IRNA, Iran's official news agency, revealed today its plans to venture forth into space with perhaps the country's most iconic animal on board: the Persian cat. The flat-faced favorite of fanciers would be the first Iranian visitor to space after the possibly-fake space monkey that Iran insists returned safely from near space a few months back. Iran's efforts to become a power in space--and certainly Iran has made more strides in thi...
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