Reiterating Tehran’s assertion that the missiles are not created to carry nuclear weapons, he added: “Iran will continue with full force its missile program based on its defensive plans and national security calculations”.
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Sen. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), who opposed the deal, said the German reports supported his contention that “Iran would keep cheating” and called on the administration to “start holding Iran’s terror-sponsoring regime fully accountable”.
But the BfV report says there has also been a continuation of Iranian attempts to boost its missile technology. Following the reports, Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan dismissed the information about alleged medium-range ballistic missile test conducted in the country.
Even if the administration called out Iran for violations of the deal, the sanctions wouldn’t “snap back” into place until a lengthy examination took place and a panel that would decide if Iran is cheating voted to cite Tehran.
“While it is for the Security Council to interpret its own resolutions, I am concerned that those ballistic missile launches are not consistent with the constructive spirit demonstrated by the signing” of the nuclear deal, reads part of Ban’s 16-page report, dated 1 July. “They may be trying, one way or another, to undermine or torpedo the nuclear deal and the normalization of relations between us and Iran”.
“The administration’s decision to continue implementing the deal and ignore Iran’s actions isn’t just delusional, it’s unsafe”, he added.
USA officials have said the Obama administration is seeking to encourage Western business in Iran to make it hard for future presidents to roll back the accord.
In February, the American company was granted approval from the United States government to explore resuming sales to Iran after U.S. sanctions were partially lifted in January following the deal on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Germany charged on July 8 that conservative forces in Iran still appear to be trying to acquire nuclear technology, likely with the goal of undermining Tehran’s nuclear deal with the West.
A Security Council diplomat reportedly told the Agence France Presse news agency that the report made “no recommendations to the Security Council”.
A separate report by a German domestic intelligence agency said that counter-espionage officials had spotted 141 procurements attempts in one German state in the past year.
Izadi: Yes and this is also what the USA government officials have said that Iran has not violated JCPOA, Iran’s test of missiles is not a violation of JCPOA, and this is what Iranian government says.
Qassemi said Iran employs missiles within the framework of its legitimate defense dosctrine, and underlined that none of the missiles has been created to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
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Republican and some Democratic critics of the deal expressed concern that the aircraft would be used by Iran for illicit activities, such as ferrying weapons to Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
