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White House Delays Imposing New Sanctions On Iran For Missile Program

US officials have said the Treasury Department retains a right under July’s nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers to blacklist entities suspected of involvement in Iran’s missile development.

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The reports were met with harsh reaction by Iran as President Hassan Rouhani in an official decree on December 31 ordered Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan to brace the missile program.


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Rhodes, speaking to reporters in Hawaii, said the United States needed more time to prepare sanctions related to Iran’s ballistic missile program and said that delay was not a result of pressure from Tehran. Under that deal, reached on July 14, most sanctions on Iran will be lifted in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.


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Iran does not accept that the United Nations resolution bars it from testing missiles, as long as it has no nuclear weapons to place on them. The official said other undeclared tests occurred earlier than that, but declined to elaborate. Iran has conducted two ballistic-missile…

The minister also underscored that “mass killing operations” are never part of the functions that Iranian missiles are capable of performing.

A top Iranian official wrote on Friday that Tehran will develop missiles with a range of 5000km – if the United States sanctions are imposed.

He once again rejected claims that Iran is planning to produce missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, saying that Iran will continue to produce and test ballistic missiles as a “conventional and important” instrument for defending the country.

The Defense Ministry is obliged to expand the missile capabilities of Iran, in case the United States insists on its “false and interfering measures”, Rouhani said.

Although Iran’s ultimate authority, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, explicitly endorsed the nuclear accord in October, he warned that new sanctions, under any pretext, would constitute a violation.

The Wall Street Journal said the USA sanctions would target about 12 people and companies connected to the missile program. He said that includes working closely with US allies in the region to bolster their defenses against such threats. He said there was no provision in the nuclear deal that bans ballistic missiles.

The White House is delaying plans to impose sanctions targeting Iran’s ballistic missile program, according to a USA media report.

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Mr. Coons said he supported the agreement on the condition that the White House vigorously enforced the deal and continued to take steps to constrain Iranian behavior in the Middle East. “I’m awaiting a clearer explanation, and hoping they’ll be taking action”, Mr. Coons said.

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