“We need a to ensure that USA forces are postured to respond to Iranian aggression and finally adopt a comprehensive strategy to counter Iran’s malign influence in the Middle East”.
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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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Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, said the pact that the USA and others negotiated with Iran previous year to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon will not impede future sanctions.
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Any such sanctions would be far narrower than the broad measures scheduled to be lifted under the nuclear deal. “Apparently, after some thirty years after the Islamic Revolution, US authorities are still reluctant to recognize the independence and sovereignty of our country and think they have a right to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs as they had done during Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties”, Rezaei wrote in the letter.
The row over Iran’s ballistic defense system comes less than six months after Iran and six world leaders sealed the Iran nuclear deal, which would require Tehran to keep its nuclear program a civilian one in return for removal of all economic and military sanctions against it by world leaders.
Iran’s FARS News Agency is reporting, December 31, that Iran is planning a response to USA plans for new sanctions against companies and individuals that are allegedly working to develop Iran’s missile capacity.
Some former US officials said they believed the White House’s reluctance to impose the sanctions was driven by a fear of undermining Mr. Rouhani.
President Hassan Rouhani ordered his defense minister on Thursday to expand Iran’s missile program after the USA threatened to impose sanctions over a ballistic missile test Iran carried out in October.
Iranian officials have said the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would view such penalties as violating the nuclear accord.
Rouhani, a relative moderate elected in 2013, has insisted that the nuclear deal does not include any offer to reduce Iran’s missile arsenal. The US has said that it has shelved plans for fresh sanctions. Ballistic tests by Iran are banned under Security Council resolution 1929, which dates from 2010 and remains valid until the July nuclear deal between Iran and world powers goes into effect. Two of the leading Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including its ranking member, Sen.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s presidential front-runner, has also backed the deal while calling for its vigorous enforcement.
