Turtles...In...Space!

In sci.space.history Pat Flannery wrote:
Iran has shot two turtles, a mouse, and worms into space today from the
back of a pickup truck as the world trembled in fear; then it was time
to kiss the Koran and show off the new rocket engine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoNd...ayer_embedded#
That single stage solid rocket doesn't look like it would have the umph
to get something into space.
It also looks a lot like a ex-Soviet Frog-7 missile.

They claiming simply to have shot them into space, or actually into
orbit? And if the former, what is Iran's definition of the beginning
of space?

rick jones
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