Iran expressed for the first time its intention to send a human to space during the summit of Soviet and Iranian Presidents in 1990.
This goal was described as the country's top priority for the next 10 years, in order to make Iran the leading space power of the region by 2021.
[2] In August 2010, President Ahmadinejad announced that Iran's first astronaut should be sent into space on board an Iranian spacecraft by no later than 2019.
[10] Currently Iran doesn't have a medium lift rocket similar to Long March 2F, GSLV Mk III and H-IIA.
[11] On 6 December, 2023 Iran launched live animals into space in a capsule mounted on a new type of rocket called "Salman".