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Post by Daniel on Feb 10, 2016 9:06:13 GMT -5
Ignoring Obama, Iran upgrades its nuclear-capable Emad missile
By Ari Yashar
2/10/2016
In open defiance of recent US sanctions on Iran's ballistic missile program, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan on late Tuesday told local media that Tehran will soon be rolling out an upgrade of its nuclear-capable medium-range Emad missiles.
The "next generation of Emad with improved precision" will be unveiled in the next Iranian year which starts on March 20, Dehghan said as cited by the semi-official Fars News Agency.
Emad is said to have a 1,700 kilometer range, putting Israel and much of eastern Europe squarely in its sights.
"The missile is being mass-produced but its precision-striking power will improve and its second version will be unveiled next year," Dehghan added. He went on to claim the missile was not a violation of the nuclear deal or UN sanctions because "we will never use a nuclear warhead (on it)."
In light of an Iranian Emad test on October 10, in breach of UN sanctions, US President Barack Obama's administration in January announced it was leveling sanctions on Iran's missile program - sanctions which Iran promptly vowed to defy. Iran in January publicly revealed its 14 underground "missile towns," with the latest facility being shown on Iranian media as convoys of the nuclear-capable Emad missiles were transferred in.
Dehghan also announced that Iran is to receive the Russian S-300 air defense system within the next two months, a troubling development given the advanced system's ability to shoot down missiles as well as jets.
The delivery has been blocked under Western pressure since 2010, given that it is in breach of UN sanctions. But now in the wake of the controversial nuclear deal Moscow is set to deliver the advanced missile system.
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Post by Daniel on Feb 18, 2016 8:39:14 GMT -5
Iran’s Revealing Defiance of the U.S. and U.N.
Roger Aronoff — February 18, 2016
Having already received its big payday from the “nuclear deal” that was never signed, Iran continues to spit in the face of the U.N. and the Obama administration, the latter of which has so valiantly attempted to defend Iran’s honor and justify this fiasco, even claiming it as a great foreign policy achievement. The latest act of defiance by Iran is an $8 billion dollar shopping spree, courtesy of its recently unfrozen assets, which were released because they supposedly convinced the IAEA that they have no plans to develop nuclear weapons.
Several sources are reporting the planned purchase. NBC News is reporting, “Moscow plans to sell Iran state-of-the-art warplanes, tanks and missile systems, Russian state media said Wednesday—a haul that could reportedly total up to $8 billion.”
The Washington Free Beacon is also reporting the sale, writing that Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser and terrorism analyst, said that “the Obama administration set the stage for these arms deals by providing Iran with sanctions relief too early under the nuclear accord.” He added that “Secretary of State John Kerry frontloaded Iran’s payday for all the wrong reasons. If the [nuclear deal] was meant to last 10 or 15 years, it would make sense to release the cash over that time frame.”
“But, because Kerry didn’t want any successor holding Iran’s feet to the fire on compliance with the deal, he gave Iran its payday up front,” Rubin explained. “It was wholly predictable—and indeed, it was predicated early and often—that Iran would invest that money disproportionately in its military and not actually help its own people.”
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Post by Daniel on Mar 16, 2016 9:41:16 GMT -5
US and Israel Call for UN Action Against Iranian Missile Launches
Published on Mar 15, 2016
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Post by Daniel on Mar 29, 2016 19:06:11 GMT -5
Western powers demand UN action on Iran missile tests
By Ben Ariel
3/30/2016
Western powers are demanding that the UN Security Council take actions over Iran’s repeated ballistic missile tests, Reuters revealed on Tuesday.
In a joint letter to the Security Council seen by the news agency, the United States and its European allies say that by launching nuclear-capable missiles, Iran has defied a United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed last year's nuclear deal.
Iran's recent ballistic tests involved missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and were "inconsistent with" and "in defiance of" council resolution 2231, adopted last July, says the joint U.S., British, French, German letter to Spain's UN Ambassador Roman Oyarzun Marchesi and UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
The Iranian regime earlier this month fired a number of ballistic missiles in tests across the country. The words “annihilate Israel” were reportedly written on the missiles, and Iranian officials claimed the missile systems being developed were needed “to confront the Zionist entity” and to ensure “its collapse”.
Those tests followed several similar tests in October, which a team of UN sanctions monitors later confirmed had violated of a UN Security Council resolution.
The letter quoted by Reuters said the missiles used in the recent launches were "inherently capable of delivering nuclear weapons."
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Post by Daniel on Mar 29, 2016 19:19:04 GMT -5
Iran: Nothing will stop our missile program
By Matt Wanderman
3/29/2016
Iran still intends to pursue its ballistic missile program, despite a United Nations resolution and a US blacklist against companies involved, Reuters reports.
"Even if they build a wall around Iran, our missile program will not stop," Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told Iran's Tasnim news. "They are trying to frighten our officials with sanctions and invasion. This fear is our biggest threat." General Hajizadeh is in charge of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace branch.
While the project does not violate last year's nuclear deal, UN Security Council Resolution 2231 forbids the Islamic Republic from "any activity" connected with ballistic missiles that could be used for nuclear weapons.
The US Treasury Department has also been trying to discourage Iran from developing new missiles by sanctioning Iranian companies involved in the program. It blocked 11 companies in response to a missile test last October and another two following this month's launches.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210036
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Post by Daniel on Mar 30, 2016 9:01:23 GMT -5
Russia says Iran missile tests 'don’t violate' UN resolution
30 Mar, 2016 RTNews
No country has provided evidence that the missiles Iran is testing are designed to carry a nuclear warhead, a senior Russian diplomat says, adding that Iran's ballistic missile tests “don’t violate a United Nations Security Council resolution” in any way.
"We do not think these launches violate Resolution 2231, because the resolution does not ban the tests," the head of the ministry’s Department for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Weapons Control, Mikhail Ulyanov, told the Interfax.
A Security Council resolution, adopted after the Iran nuclear deal was signed last year, calls for Iran not to launch any ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear weapon. Ulyanov stressed that the resolution only contains a “call to refrain not from any ballistic missile tests, but exclusively from the tests of the missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads.
“As stated by the Iranians, the missiles they test are incapable of carrying nuclear warheads. No one has yet provided any evidence that this is untrue,” Ulyanov said. "So the question emerges, what violations we are talking about? No violations whatsoever."
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www.rt.com/news/337753-iran-missile-tests-un/
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Post by Daniel on Mar 31, 2016 9:42:21 GMT -5
Khamenei: The future is missiles, not negotiations
By Ben Ariel
3/31/2016
Missiles, and not negotiations, will be a part of Iran’s future relations with the outside world, the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Wednesday, according to The Telegraph.
The comments are an apparent rebuke to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who has become a close ally of current President Hassan Rouhani, and who said last week the “future is in dialogue, not missiles”.
"People say that tomorrow's world is a world of negotiations and not a world of missiles,” said Khamenei on Wednesday, adding, “If they say this thoughtlessly, it shows that they are thoughtless. However, if this is intentional, then this is treachery."
He added, "If the Islamic system pursues technology and negotiations without defense power, then this will be a retreat in the face of threats.”
The comments come following Iran’s recent ballistic missile tests, in defiance of a UN resolution that endorsed last year's nuclear deal with the West.
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