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Iran says any US sanctions on missiles illegal
The Journal notes that US officials say that under the deal, which traded sanctions relief for a halt to Iran’s nuclear enrichment activities, the Treasury department still retains the rights to issue new sanctions against Iran over non-nuclear issues such as human rights, support for terrorism, and ballistic missile development.
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US President Barack Obama’s administration will reportedly delay planned financial sanctions against Iran over its ballistic missile program, after the Iranian president ordered the accelerated production of missiles in response to reports of possible new sanctions, Press TV reported.
On October 11, Iran’s Defense Ministry also said a successful test of a missile was carried out. However, last month a United Nations committee ruled that the October launch violated a Security Council-imposed ban on Iran developing its missile program further.
“There is a clear need to push back on Iran when it launches ballistic missiles in defiance of the worldwide community”, Schanzer said. Iran also recently aired footage on state television of an underground missile base.
Iranian officials have said the supreme leader would view such penalties as violating the nuclear accord.
Both the USA and Iran insist the missile program is not part of a landmark agreement Tehran reached with world powers in July that is to lift global sanctions in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear program.
A formal announcement is expected this week, the Journal reported.
Iran has called the Emad missile a “conventional missile”. Its removal is a key obligation taken on by Iran under the deal, which aims to reduce its ability to make nuclear weapons – something Tehran says it has no interest in. “Iran’s missile program has no connection to the [nuclear] agreement”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps fired rockets 1,500 yards away from the location where U.S. Navy and French ships were sailing.
Such a move would be the first American sanctions against Iran since Teheran signed a nuclear deal with world powers in July that will eventually see Washington drop separate sanctions targeting that programme.
Kerry said the low-enriched uranium shipment would more than triple Iran’s “breakout time” of an estimated two-to-three months. LLC, which has allegedly aided Iran’s acquisition of carbon-fiber required for ballistic missiles. The firing came after Iranians announced over maritime radio 23 minutes earlier that they’d be carrying out a live fire exercise, according to Raines.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
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The White House is delaying plans to impose sanctions targeting Iran’s ballistic missile program, according to a USA media report.