DUBAI: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed Iran on Saturday calling its space program a front for nuclear ambitions just days after Tehran said it launched a satellite into orbit.
Iran鈥檚 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced last week that it launched its first military satellite into space from a previously unused launchpad and with a new system.
鈥淒eeply troubling that the IRGC, a Foreign Terrorist Organization, launched a military satellite,鈥� Pompeo said in a Tweet.

The US secretary said that Iran 鈥渃ontinues to lie that its space program is peaceful, civilian, and transparent.鈥�
鈥淭heir secret space program advances technologies used in nuclear weapons delivery systems,鈥� he added.
Britain said on Friday that Iran's launch of a military satellite using ballistic missile technology this week was "of significant concern" and inconsistent with a United Nations Security Council resolution.