{"id":7835,"date":"2017-07-29T14:07:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T19:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2017-07-29T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T19:07:25","slug":"iran-condemns-sanctions-says-it-will-pursue-missile-program-with-full-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/07\/29\/iran-condemns-sanctions-says-it-will-pursue-missile-program-with-full-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Condemns Sanctions, Says It Will Pursue Missile Program ‘With Full Power’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran has condemned new sanctions passed by the U.S. Congress over its missile program and vowed to continue it.<\/p>\n

“We will continue with full power our missile program,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi was quoted as telling state-controlled television on July 29.<\/p>\n

“We condemn the hostile and unacceptable action,” he said of the sanctions.<\/p>\n

Ghasemi said Tehran considers consider the action by the United States as \u201chostile, reprehensible, and unacceptable,\u201d adding that \u201cit\u2019s ultimately an effort to weaken the nuclear deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the 2015 nuclear agreement with the United States and other world powers, Iran has significantly limited its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.<\/p>\n

INFOGRAPHIC: Iran And Its Missiles (click to view)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Iran maintains that the missiles that it tests don’t violate its nuclear agreement with world powers because they are for defensive purposes.<\/p>\n

“The military and missile fields…are our domestic policies and others have no right to intervene or comment on them,\u201d Ghasemi said.<\/p>\n

“We reserve the right to reciprocate and make an adequate response to the U.S. actions,” he added.<\/p>\n

The sanctions bill, which also targets Russia and North Korea, was passed by the U.S. Senate late last week, after being approved by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

The new legislation would impose mandatory penalties on people involved in Iran’s ballistic-missile program and anyone who does business with them. The measure would designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization and enforce an arms embargo against Iran.<\/p>\n

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said that President Donald Trump will sign the bill into law.<\/p>\n

Separately on July 28, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on six subsidiaries of an Iranian company that it said was “central” to Tehran’s ballistic-missile program.<\/p>\n

Treasury said the new U.S. sanctions announced were in response to Iran\u2019s \u201ccontinued provocative actions,\u201d such as the July 27 rocket launch.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. government will continue to aggressively counter Iran\u2019s ballistic-missile-related activity, whether it be a provocative space launch, its development of threatening ballistic-missile systems, or likely support to Yemeni Huthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on July 28.<\/p>\n

Mnuchin said the sanctions \u201cunderscore the United States\u2019 deep concerns with Iran\u2019s continued development and testing of ballistic missiles and other provocative behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on July 28, Britain, France, and Germany joined the U.S. in condemning Iran’s launch of a satellite-carrying rocket and warned that it runs counter to a UN resolution carrying out the 2015 nuclear deal.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement, they urged Iran to stop developing missiles and rockets that are capable of carrying nuclear warheads and have “a destabilizing impact on the region.”<\/p>\n

With reporting by AFP and AP<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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