Iran continued trying to illegally procure nuclear equipment from Germany after forging last year’s landmark nuclear agreement with world powers, German intelligence officials said, even as the Foreign Ministry in Berlin and the White House played down the reports.
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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”.
According to the intelligence report from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which was released in June, 2016, Iran was one of the foreign states that targeted “German companies” in Rhineland-Palatinate whose equipment-warns the report- could be “implemented for atomic, biological and chemical weapons in a war”.
Boeing arch rival Airbus in January reached a deal to sell Iran 118 aircraft worth about US$25 billion. The Florida Republican’s office insists the bill “would close the loophole which now allows Iran to receive indirect Export-Import financing”.
In March, the IRGC test-fired two types of Qadr ballistic missiles during the large-scale drills. “While the Obama administration deletes public videos and alters transcripts related to the nuclear deal, at least our allies are speaking out on the threat from Iran’s nuclear program”. “Since President Obama’s Iran deal was enacted, the Iranian regime has done nothing to modify its provocative, anti-American behavior”.
And amendment No 46 ensures Iran will not receive loans from USA financial institutions to purchase militarily-fungible aircraft by prohibiting OFAC from using funds to authorise the financing of such transactions.
German Foreign Minister Martin Schaefer claimed Friday that there are “forces” within Iran that are actively trying to put an end to the nuclear agreement in an apparent attempt to sever the new-found relationship between the Islamic Republic and the west.
“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 Iran nuclear deal, Ban said. Afterwards, the UN Security Council passed a resolution that endorsed the nuclear deal.
The German intelligence body in the regional state of North Rhine-Westphalia registered 141 such attempts previous year, as opposed to 83 similar tries in 2014.
“The deal between Boeing and Iran risks implicating major USA companies in the Islamic Republic’s support for terrorism and regional adventurism”, said Dubowitz, who has advocated tough sanctions against Iran and helped lawmakers craft them.
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After the accord went into effect, all nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran by the European Union, the UN Security Council, and the USA were lifted.
