“The legs of Iran’s economy are now free of the chains of sanctions, and it’s time to build and grow”, President Hassan Rouhani tweeted on Sunday, a day after world powers lifted sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme.
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“Iran’s missile program has never been created to be capable of carrying nuclear weapons”, Ansari was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.
On Sunday, U.S. President Barack Obama announced sanctions on 11 individuals over Iran’s ballistic missile testing in October and pledged to counter Iran’s “destabilizing behaviour” across the Mideast.
Iran on Monday denounced the United States’ fresh sanctions over the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, accusing Washington of hypocrisy.
“Iran’s ballistic missile program poses a significant threat to regional and global security, and it will continue to be subject to worldwide sanctions”, Treasury Undersecretary Adam Szubin said in a statement.
“The US sanctions against Iran’s ballistic missile programme… have no legal or moral legitimacy”, he said.
“Iran is the greatest state sponsor of terror in the world”, Pletka said. “Yesterday these families finally got the news they’d been waiting for”, he said referring to the USA nationals who have been released by Iran.
Obama described the release of six Iranian-Americans and one Iranian charged in the United States as a “reciprocal, humanitarian gesture” that was a one-time event.
He also said that Tehran had agreed to deepen coordination with the U.S.in trying to locate former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared nearly nine years ago during a visit to Iran.
The 39-year-old Jason Rezaian, a dual US-Iranian citizen born in California, was detained in Iran on July 22, 2014.
But Washington says the issue of Iran’s missile tests is separate from the nuclear accord.
He also argued that the improved relations helped resolve a long-standing financial dispute with the countries that will allow Iran to recoup about $400 million and roughly $1.3 billion in interest.
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The deal was finalized hours after the United Nations reported that Iran had made good on pledges to significantly back away from atomic bomb-making capacity and unlocked some $100 billion in frozen Iranian assets overseas.
