President Donald Trump on Friday released a photograph of an apparently failed Iranian rocket launch and said that the United States had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n
Tehran has made no official comment on the indications from aerial photos that a rocket exploded on Thursday on the launch pad at the Semnan Space Centre in northern Iran.<\/p>\n
But Trump tweeted a high-resolution picture of the location, with annotations pointing to damaged vehicles and the launch gantry, saying it involved Iran\u2019s Safir satellite rocket.<\/p>\n
The incident comes after months of tensions between Iran and Washington.<\/p>\n
Trump last year unilaterally withdrew from the landmark 2015 international deal that placed limits on Tehran\u2019s nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, and he reimposed crippling financial penalties.<\/p>\n
Tehran was believed to have been planning a third attempt to loft a satellite into space, after two launches in January and February failed to place satellites in orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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