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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, looks at the monkey which allegedly rode an Iranian rocket into space, held by an unidentified technician, while director of Iran’s space agency Hamid Fazeli looks on. (AP Photo/Presidency Office, Arman Teimour)


What Happened to the Space Monkey?

What Happened to the Space Monkey?

For the past three years in Tehran’s Nasir Khusraw Street-where several licensed pharmacies compete to sell medicine-there has been a thriving black market trade in pharmaceuticals. Despite repeated campaigns launched by Iranian health bodies to eliminate this...