US To Raise Iran Missile Test Before UN As Sanctions Violation

“This is altogether separate from the nuclear agreement that Iran reached with the rest of the world”, the spokesman said.

Out of 250 lawmakers present at the Majlis meeting, 161 cast votes in favour, 59 were against and 13 abstained. “And the third was the recent deal allowing Iran to move forward and eventually acquire a nuclear weapon which sent bad signals, bad body language about whether we’re acquiescing in Iran, becoming a strong piece of the formula in that world”.

This leaves the possibility that disagreements could still arise.

The bill will now be submitted to the Guardian Council, a clerical vetting body, that will either suggest amendments to the text or pass it into law.

Defending the performance of his government in the past two years, Rouhani said the achievements were gained despite pressures of unprecedented banking, commercial, and diplomatic sanctions against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

“According to the Supreme Leader’s religious decree, no government in Iran has the right to produce or use nuclear weapons and the government must actively follow worldwide disarmament policy”, the parliamentary bill said, referring to Iran’s top authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran announced Sunday it had successfully tested a new domestically produced long-range missile, which it said was the first that could be guided all the way to targets. But the United States has vowed to veto any transfer of missile technology to Iran.

Japan and Iran have reached agreement on an investment accord, which may give a boost to Japanese investments into the Islamic Republic once sanctions are lifted as early as next year, the countries’ foreign ministers said in a statement.

“Iran and Japan have traditionally worked together in the fields of oil, energy, power, and vehicle industry”, Yamagiwa stressed, adding that as well as enhanced collaborations in these areas, new fields of bilateral cooperation should be defined. In exchange, the United States will lift certain economic sanctions against Tehran. In selling the deal to sceptics, he said his negotiators protected the future of Iran’s nuclear programme while ensuring sanctions that have ravaged its economy would end. Iranian technicians will decommission thousands of the centrifuges that refine uranium, fill the Arak heavy water reactor with concrete and ship most of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium overseas.

A few US sanctions not related to the nuclear file will remain in place, but that has not deterred foreign business delegations that have flocked to Tehran ahead of the expected opening of markets in the oil-rich nation of 80 million people.