Iran To Send Persian Cat To Space, Rumor or Real?

Recent reports reveal that Iran is all set to send yet another animal to space and this time it's a Persian cat.

Iran has been accused of faking space missions in the past and so spectators are a bit skeptical about the country's recent announcement. According to a Telegraph report, Iran has announced that it is all set to send a Persian cat in to space.

Mohammad Ebrahimi, a senior space program official, said the cat will be sent to space at the end of Iran's year, which comes to a close March 21. The official also revealed that either a mouse or rabbit may also be sent in place of the cat.

Earlier this year, the country also claimed that they had sent a monkey to space but considering Iran's mission faking history, people are yet to decide on how much truth is there in that report. Previously, the country's space station said it sent a small primate into space and then brought him back without a problem. Back in 2010 Iran claimed to have also launched "a mouse, a turtle and some worms," into space in hopes of getting humans up there by the year 2018, the Telegraph reported.

PETA was quick to respond to this announcement and released a statement. "Anyone who has ever shared a home with a cat knows that cats are complex individuals with personalities who experience pain, fear and love in the same ways that we do," PETA stated,  Huffington Post reported. "Iran's archaic experiment, seemingly straight from the playbook of Wile E Coyote, is a throwback to the primitive techniques of the 1950s,"