Iran’s telecoms minister says the country plans to place its satellites into geostationary equatorial orbits (GEOs) onboard homegrown launch vehicles within the next ten years.

The president said Iran is now among the world’s top 10 countries in the field of aerospace technology.

Continuing its incredible progress in science and technology, for the first time, Iran successfully launched three indigenous satellites – Mahda, Keyhan-2 and Hatef-1 – into space on Sunday.

This week, IRGC’a aerospace division successfully sent the indigenous satellite Soraya into 750 km orbit above the Earth’s surface, marking a major space breakthrough.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says his forces is now developing indigenous supersonic cruise missiles, and has the technical know-how to track satellites with radars on the ground.

Russia says the Ukrainian president is after a pretext to trigger global nuclear confrontation.