As long as Iran keeps on developing nuclear weapons. They will never get that far into launching a Persian into space.

This will happen much before 2012. It will certainly coincide with the closing of the nuclear program...

What a joke! Like their other projects it is just a bluff. The government is incapable of managing ordinary things Iranian need on a daily basis. There are severe shortages in the country in all aspects such as transportation, fuel, food, electricity, natural gas.

Getting back is another

There already has been an Iranian to the outer space: Anousheh Ansari, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari, as the first female tourist to the space:

use the skills they already have? Or just announce it?

Sometime soon, Ahmadinejad will receive such a big missile that he will be sent into orbite.

With this momentum that Iran is showing they will send first astronaut to space within three or four years and will be first he country with less than 80 millions ppl to put astronaut in orbit.

"Iran is currently exploring the possibility of sending a human into outer space." What a shame! That disqualifies its president.

I nominate Ahbadinejad to go up first; and may he stay up there.

The Russians & Americans sent monkeys into space before they sent men. Will Iran follow their lead by sending Ahmadinijad the monkey into space?

I wonder if Iran have figured in the fact that they are about to be sent back to the dark ages...

I wish that first astronaut was Ahmadinijad. And I wish he was accompanied by the ayatollahas, and I wish them a happy one-way journey!

France, Britain, Germany, Israel, South Korea, etc etc.

Why does Ynet reproduce this Iranian BS? It is one thing for Iran to put out clearly false propaganda, it is another thing for presumably a serious paper to parrot it.

space on a big solid ball? These Persians are so retarded. What are they going to do....pollute the outer atmospere with more of their rascist, kill the Jew, hate speech? Do us all a favor and leave your trash in your dump called Iran. Ahk meen a nut would try to kill all the space aliens anyways , because they don't believe in his cult worship of Allah. Keep trash in Iran. Shoot the monkey down with a patriot missile. Anything less is just bad form.

IT WOULD TAKE A VERY LARGE SUICIDE BELT BUT- HOW WOULD THEY GET HIM THERE IN ONE PIECE???

friends with him.

It looks like the Iranian leadership is going from crazy to nuts. This is utter BS No one can claim that iran will EVER send a man in space by themselves, even in a century. They have neither the technology, nor the money, nor the industrial capability to; But again, it is their usual and ludicrous propagnada to keep the Shia mind of their people to believe that they are teh N°1 in the world, that they are almighty. This is exactly why they are unfit to get hands on nuke. Because fools doesn't think like us. they live in their own world, with their own logic who as we know is quite millenaristic and suicidal. The only answer to the Persian madness is to send them back to earth by putting their noses in their actual 3rd world country status, unable to prevent the destruction of their billion dollar waster nuclear project. Do so, and you will find their regime collapse.

I think the facts will show that the first Iranian has been in space for some time. He is the poster boy for space. I doubt very seriously that the leader of Iran could successfully shoot himself in the foot.

are these countries able to send astronaut by their own spaceship? as far as I know US, Russia and China are only nations that sent astronauts to space.