USA officials say the Treasury Department is preparing to levy new sanctions on a group of Iranians and companies in other countries connected with Iran’s ballistic missile program.
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The White House has delayed plans to slap new sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile programme, a USA news report said Thursday, amid fears it could jeopordise a hard-worn nuclear deal with Tehran. The sanctions would call on USA banks to freeze the assets of those on the list and bar people and companies in the US from doing business with them.
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A team of UN sanctions monitors said the medium-range Emad rocket that Iran tested in October was a ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, making it a violation of a UN Security Council resolution. Senator Corker has been pressing the administration “to hold Iran accountable for its repeated illicit ballistic missile tests that violate existing U.N. Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions”.
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“Imposing any sanctions at any level and under any pretext by any side of the negotiations will be considered a breach of the JCPOA”, Ayatollah Khamenei said in his letter.
Although the rockets were not fired towards any warship, their proximity to the foreign vessels, along with several commercial ships, was “highly provocative”, the official said. “Iran’s missile program has no connection to the (nuclear) agreement”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jabar Ansari stated, according to Iranian state television. Tehran disagrees, saying the new sanctions would void the nuclear deal.
Today, Iran President Hassan Rouhani ordered the country’s defense ministry to step up the missile program in response to “cruel” USA sanctions.
The new sanctions fight highlights the complexities of Washington’s relationship with Tehran, with the two longtime adversaries in a de facto alliance against the Islamic State while simultaneously at odds over the implementation of the historic pact that traded sanctions relief for sharp constraints on Iran’s nuclear program.
The alleged incident in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on December 26 drew denials from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
“In line with the [country’s] ratified defense policies, it is necessary that the program for the production of various types of missiles needed for (Iranian) Armed Forces continue with more speed and seriousness”, Rouhani said.
Rouhani further criticized the Treasury plans, stating that Iran’s domestic defense had never been within the remit of the nuclear talks.
This dispute comes after Iran and six world powers, including the US, reached ahistoric nuclear deal in July that will remove certain US, EU, and United Nations sanctions on Tehran in exchange for Iran accepting curbs on its nuclear program.
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The Iranians dismissed that part of the accord as soon as it was announced: Nothing, they said, could infringe on their fundamental right to build a “defensive technology”, meant to counter Saudi Arabia and Israel.
