Under that agreement, Tehran pledged to cap its nuclear activities in return for the lifting of global sanctions.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation aimed at blocking the sale of Boeing airliners to Iran, a deal that was authorized under Tehran’s year-old nuclear deal with world powers.
The Jerusalem Post examined intelligence data and reports from the 16 German states, which included new information on Iranian chemical and biological weapons programs.
The West’s recent missile grievances have come in for a lot of flak from Iranian officials who deem the concerns as unwarranted because none of the missiles test-fired by were created to carry nuclear warheads in the first place. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed, however, that it was up to the UN Security Council to determine what should be done to Iran in response to the tests, which are not covered by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
He says that Iran’s missile program is not linked to the nuclear deal and does not conflict with the U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the agreement.
US 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.
“The Administration has demonstrated that they do not intend to hold Iran accountable for their unsafe and destabilizing ballistic missile program, global terrorism activities, and atrocious human rights violations that are committed against their own people”, McCarthy told me in a statement.
“Iran systemically uses commercial aircraft to spread death, destruction and mayhem, and we can do something about it”, Roskam said on the House floor.
The Institute for Science and International Security also issued a report Thursday asserting that Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization had attempted to acquire carbon fiber, a key element in centrifuge construction.
A militant pro-IRGC (Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps) media website Young Journalists Club termed the German intelligence reports to be “laughable”.
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. Ninety percent of the illegal-procurement attempts were for the development of nuclear-weapon devices and missile launchers, stated the agency.
Iran meanwhile responded that it would continue its ballistic missile program.
“We are already talking to our partners in NY and elsewhere, and we won’t hesitate to discuss this with Tehran”, he said.
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Germany also said Friday it was closely watching Iran’s efforts to procure nuclear and missile technology, after German intelligence agencies reported dozens of attempts previous year.
