The White House says it has more diplomatic and technical work to do before it will announce further sanctions in response to ballistic missile launches by Iran. Congress has been notified of those deliberations.
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Some lawmakers have criticized the administration for what they describe as delayed punitive action in response to Iran’s recent ballistic missile tests.
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The following day Iranian President Hassan Rouhani denounced the Obama administration’s “illegal intervention in Tehran’s right to boost its defensive power” and directed the defence ministry to “quickly and firmly continue with its plans to produce different missiles needed by the country’s armed forces”.
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A United Nations panel last month said the two missile tests breached previous resolutions aimed at stopping the Islamic republic from developing projectiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
“I would expect the Iranians to complete the work necessary to move forward with implementation in the coming weeks”, Rhodes said.
The response was notable in part because it appeared to reflect internal political pressure on Mr. Rouhani to show some defiance in the face of what are seen among Iran’s hard-line conservatives as American threats.
Araqchi said President Rouhani’s letter indicated that Iran’s missile program is not negotiable.
At one point they were scheduled to be announced Wednesday in Washington, the newspaper said, citing a notification the White House sent to Congress. The officials gave no definitive timeline for when the sanctions would be imposed, it said.
“Iran’s missile capabilities have never been the subject of negotiations with the Americans and will never be”, he said on Iranian station Press TV.
“We lack enough space in our stockpiles to house our missiles”, said General Hossein Salami, the Guards’ deputy, as a row with the United States over Iran’s ballistic missile programme deepened.
Early in the new year, the United States and European Union are expected to unfreeze billions of dollars of Iranian assets, allow Iranian firms access to the global financial system and end bans that have crippled Iran’s oil exports.
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.
Escalating tensions: This file picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, claims to show the launching of an Emad long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile in an undisclosed location.
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Both countries agree that the missile program is separate from the nuclear deal, which rewards Iran’s agreement to curb its nuclear program with the lifting of sanctions. He said there was no provision in the nuclear deal that bans ballistic missiles. Mr. Obama won congressional support for the deal only after a bruising summerlong congressional debate. “Officials of the United States have also admitted this”, he said.
