Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that a fire in the country's space research centre has killed three scientists.
The Sunday report quotes Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi as saying that three researchers have died "because of a fire in one of the buildings of the Space Research Centre." Jahromi did not elaborate in the report.
ran plans to launch a satellite into orbit despite US criticism that such launches benefit its ballistic missile programme