{"id":87721,"date":"2009-12-29T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T14:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iran-to-unveil-second-homemade-satellite-in-february\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:45:50","slug":"iran-to-unveil-second-homemade-satellite-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iran-to-unveil-second-homemade-satellite-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to Unveil Second Homemade Satellite in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-29-09] Iran plans to unveil Toloo, its new national satellite, in early February, according to a statement released Dec. 22 by Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Toloo is under construction by the <strong>Iranian Electronics Industries Co.<\/strong> The satellite is Iran\u2019s second following the launch of Omid, its first lightweight telecommunications satellite, in February.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe great achievements made by Iran\u2019s defense ministry in the electronics field has both increased Iran\u2019s deterrent power and ended the monopoly of some countries in this complicated field,\u201d Vahidi said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The United States has been highly critical of Iran\u2019s satellite program, claiming that it is a cover-up for a nuclear weapons program while urging the international community to tighten sanctions on the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-29-09] Iran plans to unveil Toloo, its new national satellite, in early February, according to a statement released Dec. 22 by Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Toloo is under construction by the Iranian Electronics Industries Co. The satellite is Iran\u2019s second following the launch of Omid, its first lightweight telecommunications satellite, in February. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87910,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87721\/revisions\/87910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}