ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN: Russia is booked to send off an Iranian satellite into space on Tuesday, however Tehran dismissed fears that Moscow could involve it in the conflict against Ukraine.
Iran's "Khayyam" satellite is booked to take off from the Moscow-worked Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0552 GMT, three weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian partner Ebrahim Raisi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.
Iran has looked to redirect doubts that Moscow could utilize Khayyam to work on its reconnaissance of military focuses in Ukraine.
Last week, US everyday The Washington Post cited unknown Western insight authorities as saying that Russia "plans to involve the satellite for quite some time or longer" to help its conflict endeavors prior to permitting Iran to assume command.
In any case, the Iranian Space Agency said on Sunday that the Islamic republic would control the Khayyam satellite "from the very beginning."
"No third nation can get to the data" sent by the satellite because of its "encoded calculation," it said.
The motivation behind Khayyam is to "screen the nation's boundaries", improve rural efficiency and screen water assets and catastrophic events, the space organization said.
Khayyam is being taken into space by a Soyuz-2.1b rocket, Russia's space organization Roscosmos said a week ago.
As Moscow's worldwide detachment develops under the heaviness of Western authorizations over Ukraine, Putin is trying to turn Russia towards the Middle East, Asia and Africa and find new clients for the nation's beset space program.
Khayyam, evidently named after the eleventh century Persian polymath Omar Khayyam, won't be the main Iranian satellite that Russia has placed into space - - in 2005, Iran's Sina-1 satellite was conveyed from Russia's Plesetsk cosmodrome.
Iran is presently haggling with world powers, including Moscow, to rescue a 2015 arrangement pointed toward getting control over Tehran's atomic desires.
The United States - - which quit the milestone Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA under then-president Donald Trump in 2018 - - has blamed Iran for really supporting Russia's conflict against Ukraine while embracing a "shroud of lack of bias".
During his gathering with Putin last month, Iran's Khamenei called for "long haul collaboration" with Russia, and Tehran has wouldn't join global judgment of Moscow's attack of its favorable to Western neighbor.
Iran demands its space program is for non military personnel and guard purposes just, and doesn't penetrate the 2015 atomic arrangement, or some other peaceful accord.
Western states stress that satellite send off frameworks consolidate advances exchangeable with those utilized in long range rockets equipped for conveying an atomic warhead, something Iran has consistently denied needing to fabricate.
Iran effectively put its initial military satellite into space in April 2020, drawing a sharp censure from the United States.
