president of the UNITED states, Donald Trump, criticized on Twitter to have published a photo believed to be taken by an american spy satellite over Iran.
The black-and-white photo allegedly shows a raketaffyringscenter in northern Iran, from which a launch of a satellite on Thursday ended up wrong.
the picture shows a brandskadet launch pad.
Trump writes in tweetet that the UNITED states was not involved in the “disastrous accident during the final preparations for the launch” of a satellite. Trump also mentions the name of the place in Iran where the incident took place.
Later Friday, defended Trump to reporters in The White House that he had shared the image on Twitter.
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Here is the picture of the Trumps Twitter profile. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
– We had a photo. I sent it out, and I am completely in my right to do, he said.
An iranian official has indicated that a rocket on Thursday, exploded shortly before firing. The UNITED states has also announced that Iran has lost a satellite in a failed launch.
– I wish Iran all the best and good luck with finding out what happened, writes Trump on Twitter.
A source in the us department of defense says to the tv station CNBC that the photograph was accompanied by a efterretningsbriefing, as Trump got on Friday.
Patrick Eddington, who has previously analyzed satellite imagery of the secret service, the CIA, estimates that there is talk about a photo from a american spy satellite.
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And the kind of pictures is not intended for the public in the UNITED states or elsewhere, he stresses.
– If the president has tweetet a picture that is labeled as confidential, so it is without a doubt a news that will delight our opponents, said Patrick Eddington, who is now a researcher at think tank the Cato Institute.
The u.s. department of defense, the Pentagon, has not commented on the Trumps tweet.
the UNITED states has previously warned Iran against the firing of rockets. The americans are nervous that the technology to bring the satellites in orbit can make Iran to develop ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.
the Regime in Tehran has rejected an american assertion that satellitprogrammet is a cover for the development of ballistic missiles.