Iranian President Hassan Rouhani talks to journalists after he registered for February’s election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, at Interior Ministry in Tehran December 21, 2015.
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“Apparently, the US government is considering adding new individuals and institutions to the list of its previous oppressive sanctions”, Rouhani wrote In a letter to the defense minister Thursday.
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“It is clear that Iran’s missile program has never been part of the JCPOA, as [already] acknowledged by United States officials”, said Rouhani, stressing that “nuclear weapons have no place in Iran’s defense doctrine; therefore, Iran’s ballistic missiles have not been created to carry nuclear warheads”.
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The S&P 500 fell 0.9% to 2,043.94, leaving the broad-based gauge of U.S. stocks down 0.7% for the year, its first loss since 2011. The precious metal lost more than 10 percent for the year, posting three-straight years of decline for the first time since 1998.
Iranian officials are vowing to increase Iran’s missile capabilities amid reports from Washington of new sanctions against Tehran for its testing of a ballistic missile in October.
The current escalating dispute centers on the types of missile that the Islamic Republic is allowed to develop and whether they are capable of, or created to, carry nuclear warheads.
Dehqan said that Iran as an independent country is an element of stability and a pioneer in the fight against extremism and terrorism and its moves guarantee stability and security of the region. But Iran says any new sanctions could torpedo the wider accord.
Cmdr. Kyle Raines, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said Wednesday that Guard vessels fired several unguided rockets about 1,370 meters (1,500 yards) from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and other Western warships and commercial traffic last Saturday.
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 worldwide financial system and end bans that have crippled Iran’s oil exports. Iran has called Emad a conventional missile.
A senior administration official said in a statement to AFP that “we’ve been looking for some time at options for additional actions related to Iran’s ballistic missile programme”.
His order to accelerate the program came in a letter to the defense minister, which was posted on the president’s website Thursday.
U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it was considering sanctions against a number of Iranian and global individuals and agencies for their alleged involvement in developing Iran’s ballistic missile program.
Critics of the planned sanctions had already charged they weren’t an adequate US response to Iran’s continuing development of its missile program.
But while it is possible for the United Nations sanctions committee to blacklist additional Iranian entities over the missile launch, United Nations diplomats say Russian Federation and China have opposed the sanctions on Iran’s missile program and might block any new action.
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Larijani asserted that Iran enjoys effective knowledge in the field of peaceful nuclear technology, and the reality can not be eliminated with the hype.
