{"id":197589,"date":"2008-01-23T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/reports-of-iranian-political-pressure-delayingisraeli-satellite-launch\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T04:25:00","slug":"reports-of-iranian-political-pressure-delayingisraeli-satellite-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/reports-of-iranian-political-pressure-delayingisraeli-satellite-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports of Iranian Political Pressure DelayingIsraeli Satellite Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Post is reporting<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?c=JPArticle&amp;cid=1200572511053&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">Iranian &#8220;sabotage&#8221; delayed the launch of the TecSar Satellite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sabotage is the JPost&#8217;s term, not mine.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Iran was using its contacts with India&#8217;s Marxist and Muslim parties to apply pressure against the government launching Israel&#8217;s satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has its own organic launch capabilities, but they have to do a retrograde launch over the Med to avoid Diplomatic issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Post is reportingIranian &#8220;sabotage&#8221; delayed the launch of the TecSar Satellite. Sabotage is the JPost&#8217;s term, not mine. It appears that Iran was using its contacts with India&#8217;s Marxist and Muslim parties to apply pressure against the government launching Israel&#8217;s satellite. Israel has its own organic launch capabilities, but they have to do &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1159,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}