The curtain has fallen on Iran’s supposedly successful “monkey in space” mission. Before and after photos of the iranian astronaut monkey reveal the original monkey having changed to one of his cousins.

This throws Iran’s formidable space monkey program claims in doubt as the rest of the world is left wandering what really happened to that monkey?

Did it fly or not?

“Sure he did!” defense minister Ahmad Vahidi boasted. “Next time we will send a donkey!”