TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran announced Wednesday it has successfully launched a research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles and worms into space — a feat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said showed Iran could defeat the West in the battle of technology.

The launch of the rocket Kavoshgar-3, which means Explorer-3 in Farsi, was announced by Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi to mark the National Day of Space Technology. Continue reading →

I wonder why the Israeli Government Press Office found it necessary to translate and disseminate this article by Maariv commentator Ben-Dror Yemini attacking the New Israel Fund. The GPO sends out a daily digest of headlines, articles and opinion pieces from the Hebrew press to a large list of recipients, but it is very rare that it translates and disseminates just one article. It has done so in the past on Ben-Dror Yemini’s articles, but I think only once or twice. Maybe it has something to do with a top-level decision to take on Israeli NGOs critical of Israeli government policies…

From אנדי לוטרמן
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date Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:20 AM
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SLUSH FUND
(Article by Ben-Dror Yemini, Ma’ariv, 2.2.10)
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