Iran and the USA - with a twist!

Iran is in the news so much lately.

Let's see what we have been hearing about.

• Its nuclear ambitions,
  
• its relationships with insurgents,
  
• its arming of Hezbollah,
  
• its relations with non aligned countries and
  
• its somewhat fundamentalist outlook on Islam

Its struggle with the Great Satan has made all the headlines so I thought I would present another story about Iran and the US that could be a little less depressing

Here is a recent story from the BBC

The first woman space tourist has blasted off on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.

The mission is carrying Iranian-born businesswoman, Anousheh Ansari, along with a fresh crew for the International Space Station (ISS).

Ms Ansari, a 40-year-old US citizen, is thought to have paid at least $20m (£10.6m) for the mission.

Read all about it on http://spaceblog.xprize.org/