LONDON — Iranian state television said Monday that the country’s scientists had succeeded in sending a monkey into space ‘‘as a prelude to sending humans.’’

Press TV, the state-run satellite broadcaster, said the animal was launched in a space capsule code named Pishgam, or Pioneer.

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HarryRPitts

01/29/2013 06:55 AM

The mad mullahs have dragged Iran kicking and screaming into the 1950s.