DUBAI — Iran unveiled a new short-range missile called Thunder on Sunday and launched a satellite named Victory which failed to reach orbit.
“I wanted to make you happy with good news but sometimes life does not go the way we want it to. The launch was not successful,” he tweeted. The first picture the satellite had been due to transmit to state media would have been of Soleimani, Azari-Jahromi told state TV. Iran usually displays its military and space achievements in February during the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah.