US Officials not worried about Iran's rocket launch...

In NEWSWEEK, here

"...The official said that reports reaching the U.S. government indicate the technology was around 50 years old, the equivalent of the rocket that put the Soviet "Sputnik" satellite into low-earth orbit in 1957....

(Yet) Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, which under the Bush administration began to deploy a rudimentary U.S. missile-defense system to protect against rogue states like Iran and North Korea, said those who played down the significance of last week's Iranian launch are "missing the point....

Yet Obama and his advisors have been careful not to go too far in condemning Tehran..."