Iran missile test violated United Nations ban, sanctions report finds

Talking live on Iran’s state TV, Rouhani said the resolution, by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was “not only a legal and technical success… but a political and ethical success” since it proved to the world that Iran had not been after the nuclear arms in its nuclear program over the past years.

An Iranian technician walks through the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, south of the capital Tehran.

Once the deal takes effect, Iran will still be “called upon” not to undertake any ballistic missiles work created to deliver nuclear weapons for a period of up to eight years, according to a Security Council resolution adopted in July right after the nuclear deal.

“Based on this resolution, it can be said unequivocally that the fake issue of so-called military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program, known as PMD, now belongs to history”, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the nation’s semiofficial Tasnim News Agency.

The resolution remains valid until the a nuclear deal is implemented between Iran and the six UN nations, namely China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the US.

The probe had to be formally ended as part of the historic agreement, which will lift sanctions in return for Iran curbing its nuclear activities.

The IAEA issued a report this month strongly suggesting Iran engaged in coordinated activities aimed at developing a nuclear bomb up until 2003, though it found no credible sign of weapons-related work beyond 2009.

The IAEA will also have to confirm that Iran has enacted all its commitments under the July deal – on a day to be dubbed “Implementation Day” – which is expected in early 2016.

Following Iran’s October 10 ballistic missile test, Senator Corker, along with committee members Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), wrote a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry seeking a determination on whether the test violated UNSCR 1929 and how the USA would respond. The last IAEA update on November 18 said that Iran had removed some 4,500 centrifuges.

But an Iranian missile test in October may already have set back trust in the regime.

“Nothing has changed”, she declared. Although Iran has warned the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that ending the enquiry would encourage Iran to re start development of Nuclear weapons.

The report submitted to the U.N. Security Council and seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday said the launch used ballistic missile technology banned under a June 2010 resolution.

This file picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, claims to show the launching of an Emad long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile in an undisclosed location.