Wednesday’s tests saw two Qadr-H and Qadr-F precision missiles fired from launcher trucks tucked in the Alborz mountain range in northern Iran, hitting targets about 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) away in the southeastern Makran area, the Guards said.
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“Iran’s missile programme will not stop under any circumstances”.
“There’s at least one specific United Nations Security Council resolution that could apply here, and the truth is, we’re still reviewing the Iranian launch to assess whether it is necessary for this matter to be raised before the United Nations Security Council”, he told reporters. “Iran will not turn into Yemen, Iraq or Syria”, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told state TV on late Wednesday, referring to a series of Middle East countries consumed with internal conflicts or outright civil war.
“I am deeply concerned by reports that Iran has tested multiple missiles, which it claimed were stamped with words declaring that ‘Israel should be wiped from the pages of history, ‘” the former secretary of state announced in a statement.
United Nations experts said the launch used ballistic missile technology banned under a Security Council resolution.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) test-fired two ballistic missiles on Wednesday that it said were created to be able to hit Israel, defying US criticism of similar tests carried out this week.
In January, the USA imposed new sanctions on individuals and entities linked to the ballistic missile program.
The IRGC has undertaken a number of provocative military shows of force since the nuclear deal was signed, including flying a drone near USA naval ships in the Gulf, firing rockets near the ships and briefly detaining U.S. navy sailors who strayed into Iranian waters.
Biden’s comments came after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who strongly opposed the nuclear deal.
That move was made to stop a group of people and companies, some based in the United Arab Emirates and China, that found and imported the goods needed to support Iran’s missile program.
Iran’s foreign ministry insisted on Thursday that the missile tests carried out by the country’s Revolutionary Guard this week do not violate Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers or a U.N. Security Council resolution.
The Guards said the tests were aimed at displaying Iran’s “deterrent power and its ability to confront any threat ” .
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“The missiles fired today [Wednesday] are the results of sanctions”. He was also quoted on the website of IRGC as saying: “Our main enemies are imposing new sanctions on Iran to weaken our missile capabilities …”
