Iranian VP Warns of Enemies’ Plots to Stop Revolutionary Nation’s Progress

Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Nasrin Soltankhah underscored Iran’s major share in the Muslim world’s scientific advancements, and warned that enemies have hatched plots to prevent the progress and flourishing of the revolutionary countries.

“Iraqi scientists were the first victims of terrors after the occupation of this country by US and its allies; region’s revolutionized countries should care about enemy plots which want to impede Muslim nations to progress forward; enemies would do whatever they could do to prevent Islamic countries and in particular revolutionized ones to make scientific advancements,” Soltankhah said, addressing the closing ceremony of The 1st International Conference on Women and Islamic Awakening in Tehran on Wednesday.

“All the pressures made upon Iran is because of the fact that Tehran is an independent Muslim state,” she added.

Iran has made huge achievements in various fields of science and technology, from nuclear knowledge to stem cells and Nano technology, in the last two decades.

In a most recent case, Iranian Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi announced in September that the country would soon start production of 15 types of anti-cancer drugs.

“15 types of monoclonal anti-body drugs are being synthesized with the help of the Scientific Department of the Presidential Office, using hi-tech technology,” Vahid Dastjerdi said.

Iran also has an ambitious space program. The country announced in May that it would send more living creatures into the space by the next three months.

“Given the good support that has been offered by the government, we will have a program for sending living creatures into space,” Head of the Iranian Space Agency Hamid Fazeli said.

“The preliminary steps have already been taken and the living creatures will be sent into the space by the next two or three months,” Fazeli added.

He further announced that Iran will send Fajr (Dawn), Tolou (Sunrise) and Elm-o Sana’at (Promise of Science and Industry) satellites into orbit this year.

Iran has already sent small animals into space – a rat, turtles and worms – aboard a capsule carried by its Kavoshgar-3 rocket in 2010.

The Islamic republic, which first put a satellite into orbit in 2009, has outlined an ambitious, but fully home-grown, space program and has, thus far, made giant progress in the field despite western sanctions and pressures against its advancement. ?