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White House: Need More Time To Impose Iran Sanctions
“The individual would serve as the congressional equivalent to Ambassador Stephen Mull, whom the Obama administration named to serve as coordinator for the US implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran Nuclear Program at the Department of State”, the Florida Republican wrote to Ryan, reports The Washington Examiner.
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While stressing that the Iran nuclear deal will not impede future sanctions against Iran, Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, said the USA government has more diplomatic and technical work to do before making the final decision to slap punitive measures against Iran.
The remarks by Iranian military officials followed Thursday letter of President Hassan Rouhani to Defense Ministry to proceed with the country’s missile program “with high speed and seriously” and expand Iran’s missile capabilities in response to the United States considered sanctions.
A United Nations panel ruled last month that the October launch violated a Security Council resolution that bans Iran’s development of ballistic missile systems.
Rhodes said Iran still had a number of important things to do after having shipped its stockpile of low enriched uranium out of the country.
Rhodes denied that the additional work is a result of pressure from Tehran.
Ballistic missile tests by Iran are banned under Security Council resolution 1929, which was adopted in 2010 and remains valid until a nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers goes into effect.
The reports were met with harsh reaction by Iran as President Hassan Rouhani in an official decree on December 31 ordered Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan to brace the missile program.
Iranian state media reported American and Iranian diplomats undertook intensive deliberations in recent days to discuss the sanctions issue.
The mooted financial penalties on companies and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, for apparent links to Tehran’s missile programme, highlighted worsening US-Iran relations. Under the agreement, many economic sanctions on Iran will be relaxed in exchange for Iran’s verifiable guarantees of peaceful nuclear work.
Defence Minister Hossein Dehqan said Iran would boost its missile program and had never agreed to restrictions on it.
Critics of the White House accused President Obama of backing down on his promises to take action in the face of Iranian provocations such as missile launches.
“If [the] US continues its illegitimate interference with Iran’s right to defend itself, a new program will be devised to enhance missile capabilities”.
The US has threatened sanctions against Iran for the development and production of missiles on Thursday, threatening the outcome of the Iranian nuclear deal.
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The threat comes after a senior commander claimed Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have so many missiles they don’t know where to hide them.