Mounting evidence indicates the Iranian rocket recently used to launch a satellite into space was a more advanced two-stage, rather than three-stage, vehicle.
Iran said Tuesday it had successfully sent its first domestically produced satellite into orbit, joining an exclusive club of fewer than a dozen nations with such capabilities.
A group of experts under the auspices of the United States Institute for Peace announced that it had met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on January 11, 2009. The delegation included Ellen
Seven experts and former government officials from the U.S. are en route to North Korea, and are due to arrive in Pyongyang on Tuesday in the first major civilian visit from Washington under the Obama administration. The delegation, funded in part by Ploughshares Fund, includes former Assistant Secretary of State Morton Abramowitz and Ploughshares Fund grantee Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council.