Ahmadinejad: Send Me Into Space

Iranian President Madmoud Ahmadinejad announced Monday his lofty post-presidential goal: to be Iran's Neil Armstrong.

"I'm ready to be the first Iranian to sacrifice myself for our country's scientists," said Ahmadinejad as quoted by an official Iranian news agency and reported by the Associated Press.

Iran's space program has a goal of putting an Iranian in space within the next five to seven years. Iran just last Monday claimed to have shot a monkey into space and back, although the success of that mission is being called into question.

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