Did Iran just fire an ICBM? Satellite images point to secret missile launch

Iran may have just tested a missile it doesn’t want the world to know about.

Satellite photos reviewed by the Associated Press show scorch marks at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport, evidence pointing to a launch on September 18. The pad, freshly painted in the Iranian flag’s colours weeks earlier, now shows clear signs of fire damage consistent with previous launches.

Tehran hasn’t acknowledged the test. State media is silent. But locals in Semnan province posted pictures of a contrail streaking across the evening sky. That contrail, combined with satellite proof, suggests Iran fired something, a missile or a rocket, during one of its most politically sensitive weeks.

A lawmaker’s bold, unverified claim

Into this silence stepped Mohsen Zanganeh, an Iranian lawmaker, who declared on state TV