Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said Monday that Iran will respond by boosting efforts in its legal ballistic missile program and promoting its defense capabilities.
Iran drew condemnation from the U.S. and other Western powers for two ballistic missile tests late last year they said violated U.N. Security Council resolutions. Iran defended the tests as a matter of national security.
The U.S. enacted new measures Sunday against five Iranian nationals and a network of companies with links to banned missile activity...
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France's Fabius says EU to discuss if new Iran sanctions needed...
ReplyDeleteThe European Union will discuss this week whether it needs to impose new sanctions on Iran following recent ballistic missile tests, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday, a day after the United States announced such measures.
Washington imposed sanctions on 11 companies and individuals on Sunday for supplying Iran's ballistic missile program, in a move delayed by over two weeks so as not to endanger this weekend's release of U.S. prisoners.
"We have to compare the American system and European system and to see if there are new sanctions to take or not, and this exercise will be implemented this week," Fabius told Reuters in an interview during a visit to Abu Dhabi...Reuters...todayonline.com