Iran claims to have launched satellite - UPDATE: VIDEO ADDED; UPDATE: IRAN ADMITS SATELLITE A DUMMY

Iran is claiming that it placed its first domestically produced satellite into orbit on Sunday morning. The satellite named Omid (Hope) has been designed and built by Iranian specialists and was orbited by an Iranian carrier rocket.In February Tehran successfully launched the Explorer-1 research rocket, which is capable of carrying a satellite into orbit, and unveiled the country's first