In response to the potential new USA sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the country’s Defense Ministry to expedite work on expanding Iran’s missile power.
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“As the U.S.is clearly still pursuing its hostile policies and illegal meddling… the armed forces need to quickly and significantly increase their missile capability”.
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“If US continues its illegitimate interference w/ Iran s right to defend itself a new program will be devised to enhance missile capabilities”, the president wrote on Twitter.
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The mooted financial penalties on companies and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, for apparent links to Tehran’s missile program, highlighted worsening US-Iran relations.
President Rouhani’s remarks followed the US Treasury Department’s recent announcement that it was considering sanctions against a number of Iranian and worldwide individuals and agencies for their alleged involvement in developing Iran’s ballistic missile programme.
The sanctions would nearly certainly have put USA businesses in an even worse state as the rest of the world scrambles to open up business with Iran, though officials did not indicate if this was a factor in the decision to back off the sanctions in the near-term.
The report also states, “If the new sanctions are imposed, they will be a blatant violation of the nuclear deal signed between Tehran and the world powers in July that would eventually see Washington drop sanctions targeting Iran”.
On Thursday morning, without offering up any reasons, the White House unexpectedly delayed the introduction of the previously approved sanctions.
“Iran will resolutely respond to any interfering action by America against its defensive programs”, said Jaber Ansari, rejecting the new sanctions as “arbitrary and illegal”.
Rouhani further criticised the apparent US Treasury plans, stating that Iran’s domestic defence had never been within the remit of the nuclear talks and its missiles would never be used to carry an atomic bomb.
Iran test-fired missiles in October and November.
The new sanctions fight highlights the complexities of Washington’s relationship with Tehran, with the two longtime adversaries in a de facto alliance against the Islamic State while simultaneously at odds over the implementation of the historic pact that traded sanctions relief for sharp constraints on Iran’s nuclear program.
Gen. Ramezan Sharif, a Revolutionary Guard spokesman, said his forces didn’t carry out any drills in the key Persian Gulf waterway.
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Rouhani, a relative moderate elected in 2013, has insisted that the nuclear deal does not include any offer to reduce Iran’s missile arsenal.
