Iran Launches Rocket Into Space as Nuclear Talks to Resume

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Iran had previously acknowledged that it planned more tests for the satellite-carrying rocket, which it first launched in February of last year.
52% : The launch comes just a day after the European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, traveled to Tehran in a push to resuscitate negotiations over Iran's nuclear program that have stalemated for months.
51% : Tehran responded by greatly ramping up its nuclear work and now enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels.
48% : The U.S. intelligence community's 2022 threat assessment, published in March, claims such a satellite launch vehicle "shortens the timeline" to an intercontinental ballistic missile for Iran as it uses "similar technologies."
40% : In a further escalation that limits the international community's view into its nuclear program, Iran removed over two dozen International Atomic Energy Agency cameras from its nuclear sites this month.
40% : Iran, which long has said it does not seek nuclear weapons, maintains its satellite launches and rocket tests do not have a military component.
37% : The United States warns the launches defy a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Iran to steer clear of any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
33% : Satellite images from February suggested a failed Zuljanah launch earlier this year, though Iran did not acknowledge it.
31% : Former President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed crushing sanctions on Iran.
30% : TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian state television said Sunday that Tehran had launched a solid-fueled rocket into space, drawing a rebuke from Washington ahead of the expected resumption of stalled talks over Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers.

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