Iran has announched that its 1,200-mile test of a new surface-to-surface missile, called "Sajil-2," was a success. This means Iran, on its way to becoming a nuclear nation, has a missile capable of hitting targets in Europe. From CNN:

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Obama "expressed … his great concern, his continued concern, about Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons capability and nuclear weapons technology."

In February 2009, Iran launched its first domestically-made satellite, called Omid, shown at right in the presence of its smiling President.

Four years earlier, on October 28, 2005, Russia launched a satellite for Iran, called Sina-1, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

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The Chinese, too, are fascinated with Area-51. The article I wrote last month on the subject — for the Los Angeles Times Magazine — has made its way to China. 

像这样连美国政府都不承认的绝顶机密，如果没有人出面说出在那里真正发生了什么，那么51区的谜团无论媒体和公众如何猜测还是很难解开的。好在过了几十年后的今天，第一次有五名曾在那里工作过的知情人出来说话了，他们真实且有趣的故事验证了曾经最令政府愤怒的“谣言”其实并非空穴来风。

这五人是77岁的马丁（Harry Martin），他曾是负责51区每月50万加仑间谍飞机燃料供给人员之一；72岁的班斯（Thornton "T.D." Barnes），他曾是51区一名特别项目工程师；80岁的科林斯（Kenneth Collins），他曾是美国中央情报局（CIA）在51区的飞机试飞员，曾被授予银质勋章；87岁的美军上校斯莱特（Hugh "Slip" Slater），他在1960年代是51区基地的一名指挥官；90岁的洛维克（Edward Lovick），他曾经从事世界上最著名飞机的雷达测试达30年之久，这些飞机包括美军U2高空侦察机，A-12“牛车”（OXCART）绝密间谍飞机和 F-117隐形战斗机等，他曾在洛杉矶时报杂志今年三月期的一篇特别报导上出现过。以下是他们的几则精彩故事。

If you read Chinese, there's more…

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