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Iran plans to send its first astronaut into space within the next decade, the head of the Iran Aerospace Organization said on Wednesday.

Iran plans to send into orbit several domestic satellites by 2010, the head of the country’s aerospace agency said on Monday.

Iran has successfully put a dummy satellite into orbit, the Islamic Republic’s space agency has reported.

Iran has successfully launched its first domestically built satellite, the news agency of the Islamic Republic reported on Sunday.

Iran will launch its first satellite in the nearest few days, the country’s president said on Saturday.

The latest round of negotiations between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog was constructive, an Iranian nuclear official said Friday.

The Bushehr nuclear power plant currently being built by Russia in southern Iran may be launched later in 2008, an Iranian vice president said on Friday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) scheduled for August 28 in Tajikistan, The Tehran Times reported on Thursday.

The deputy head of the UN nuclear watchdog arrived in Tehran on Thursday for a two-day visit to discuss prospects for cooperation with Iran’s nuclear authorities, Iranian media said.

The six countries trying to persuade Iran to halt its uranium enrichment will continue attempts to resolve the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program by diplomatic means, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

The EU’s foreign policy chief Javier Solana received Tuesday a letter from Tehran responding to proposals made by six world powers to try to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, Solana’s press office official said.

Iran has not given an official response to proposals made by six world powers to try and resolve the dispute over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, a source in the Iranian Security Council told IRNA Tuesday.

Iran executed 29 people convicted of murder, armed robbery, drug trafficking and other crimes, national television said on Sunday.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Iran on Monday of new sanctions if it refuses to suspend its nuclear program, and condemned the Iranian leadership’s threats directed at Israel.

Iran will test new armaments in a major air exercise to be held soon, Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najar said on Sunday.

Talks between Iran and world powers on the Islamic Republic’s controversial nuclear program were a step forward, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.

The United States said on Saturday that Iran must choose between cooperation and confrontation after the Islamic Republic gave no clear answer at the nuclear talks over its controversial uranium enrichment program.