Iran confirms missile test, drawing tough response from Trump aide

[webfact]

Iran confirms missile test, drawing tough response from Trump aide

By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

REUTERS

 

Iranian Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan delivers a speech as he attends the 5th Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) in Moscow, Russia, April 27, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

 

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday it had test-fired a new ballistic missile, prompting a tough response from a senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump.

 

Iran's defence minister said the test did not breach the Islamic Republic's nuclear agreement with world powers or a U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the pact,

 

Iran has test-fired several ballistic missiles since the nuclear deal in 2015, but the latest test was the first since Trump entered the White House. Trump said during his election campaign that he would stop Iran's missile programme.

 

"The recent test was in line with our plans and we will not allow foreigners to interfere in our defence affairs," Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan told Tasnim news agency. "The test did not violate the nuclear deal or (U.N.) Resolution 2231."

 

Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, said the United States was putting Iran on notice over its "destabilising activity" after it fired the missile.

 

"As of today, we are officially putting Iran on notice," Flynn said, without explaining exactly what that meant.

 

Flynn said the missile launch defied the U.N. resolution that called on Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

 

A U.S. official said Iran had test-launched a medium-range ballistic missile on Sunday and it exploded after travelling 630 miles (1,010 km).

 

The Security Council held an emergency meeting on Tuesday and recommended the missile testing be studied at committee level. The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, called the test "unacceptable".

 

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that Tehran would never use its ballistic missiles to attack another country.

 

Some 220 Iranian members of parliament reaffirmed support for Tehran's missile programme, calling international condemnation of the tests "illogical."

 

"The Islamic Republic of Iran is against weapons of mass destruction, so its missile capability is the only available deterrence against enemy hostility," the lawmakers said in a statement carried on state media on Wednesday.

 

The state news agency IRNA quoted Ali Shamkhani, head of Iran's National Security Council, as saying Iran would not seek "permission from any country or international organisation for development of our conventional defensive capability".

 

The Security Council resolution was adopted to buttress the deal under which Iran curbed its nuclear activities to allay concerns they could be used to develop atomic bombs, in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

 

The resolution urged Tehran to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons. Critics say the resolution's language does not make this obligatory.

 

Tehran says it has not carried out any work on missiles specifically designed to carry nuclear payloads.

 

The test on Sunday, according to U.S. officials, was of a type of missile that had also been tested seven months ago.

 

Iran has one of the Middle East's largest missile programmes but it has been dogged by a poor record for accuracy.

 

However, Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said on the day of the test that the country was now one of the few whose ballistic missiles were capable of hitting moving objects.

 

This would enable Iran to hit enemy ships, drones or incoming ballistic missiles.

 

Some of Iran's precision-guided missiles have the range to strike its regional enemy Israel.

 

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Iran's new missile test a "flagrant violation" of the U.N. resolution. He said he would ask Trump in their meeting in mid- February for a renewal of sanctions against Iran.

 

(Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin; Editing by Mark Heinrich and Giles Elgood)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-02-02

[ezzra]

 

Iran will not escape the wreath of Trump, I'm sure he's planning some measures

to bring this rough country to heel from the simple reason that everyone

knows that the Iran is a wolf in sheep clothing and they 're doing all they can

to be power player in the region, a plan by  Obama that envisioned Iran

as a regional power broker.... 

[Fookhaht]

 

Iran will not escape the wreath of Trump....

Ah yes, The Wreath of Trump, destined for Iran . . .

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[daveAustin]

Do em, Don, and drop one on Mr Kim while you're at it. That would certainly take the focus off the feminists and dogooders at home. [emoji6]

[elgordo38]

13 hours ago, webfact said:

prompting a tough response from a senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Hey Obama could have come up with a tough response Donald we expect more from you. Rattle your sabre a bit. Give em a bit of fire and brimstone at least. 

[Srikcir]

14 hours ago, webfact said:

Tehran says it has not carried out any work on missiles specifically designed to carry nuclear payloads.

Never disproved by the US under Obama or Trump.

Iran is in compliance with the nonenforceable Resolution.

http://www.un.org/en/sc/2231/restrictions-ballistic.shtml

Security Council Permanent Member Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov said the resolution calls on Iran only to abstain from launching missiles able to “carry nuclear warheads,” Interfax reported. Russia is confident Iran has no nuclear weapons program. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-31/eu-russia-weigh-in-on-iran-missiles-as-security-council-to-meet

Trump will not get support from the UN Security Council to punish Iran on its missile development program.

 

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[localczar]

good riddance iran....your days are numbered....trump is coming....

[localczar]

39 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

Never disproved by the US under Obama or Trump.

Iran is in compliance with the nonenforceable Resolution.

http://www.un.org/en/sc/2231/restrictions-ballistic.shtml

Security Council Permanent Member Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov said the resolution calls on Iran only to abstain from launching missiles able to “carry nuclear warheads,” Interfax reported. Russia is confident Iran has no nuclear weapons program. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-31/eu-russia-weigh-in-on-iran-missiles-as-security-council-to-meet

Trump will not get support from the UN Security Council to punish Iran on its missile development program.

 

trump dont need NOBODYS support....he will ruin iran....!

[stevenl]

trump dont need NOBODYS support....he will ruin iran....!

He is capable of ruining many things, and has made a lot of progress on that path already, but Iran is not one of those things.

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[Richard W]

6 hours ago, elgordo38 said:

Hey Obama could have come up with a tough response Donald we expect more from you. Rattle your sabre a bit. Give em a bit of fire and brimstone at least. 

Brimstone is an accurate, low collateral damage weapon not assembled in the US.  It is therefore totally unsuited for his purposes.

[Opl]

5 hours ago, localczar said:

good riddance iran....your days are numbered....trump is coming....

 

Despite his innate deceit and his puny humanism, Trump is capable of stinging crises like a child of 5 years and does not remember it after .......Trump can trigger a nuclear war ...

[ResandePohm]

On 2/2/2017 at 6:40 AM, ezzra said:

 

Iran will not escape the wreath of Trump, I'm sure he's planning some measures

to bring this rough country to heel from the simple reason that everyone

knows that the Iran is a wolf in sheep clothing and they 're doing all they can

to be power player in the region, a plan by  Obama that envisioned Iran

as a regional power broker.... 

They will probably be the first to send a wreath to Trump followed by many others.

[ResandePohm]

On 2/2/2017 at 9:11 PM, localczar said:

good riddance iran....your days are numbered....trump is coming....

What a load of Bull

[Grouse]

On 03/02/2017 at 2:04 AM, Richard W said:

Brimstone is an accurate, low collateral damage weapon not assembled in the US.  It is therefore totally unsuited for his purposes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brimstone_(missile)

 

Just for info....

[localczar]

33 minutes ago, ResandePohm said:

What a load of Bull

ok, wait, soon iran wont be able to feed itself due to sanctions, no banking, no funds, no NOTHING...doomsday! thats all before they get NUKED!