Alwaght- Iranian deputy foreign minister said Iran’s missile capability is related to its defense and national security so they neither negotiate nor compromise about it.
“During the [nuclear] negotiations [with the P5+1 group of countries], we never allowed them to raise the issue of our country’s missile [program], because no wise individual will negotiate over his country’s security,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi said in a televised interview Saturday night.
Referring to recent claims by the US and some European countries about Iran’s latest ballistic missile tests, the official said those countries have already brought up this issue at the UN Security Council twice, but have failed to make the body issue even a statement against Iran.
Araqchi stated that the US and the West frequently resorted to the Security Council Resolution 2231 to call for a stop on Iran’s ballistic missile tests, adding, “The resolution calls upon Iran not to test or produce missiles which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads, but Iran has never developed missiles for this purpose.”
The Iranian deputy foreign minister reiterated that there was no evidence to show that Iran's missiles were meant to carry nuclear warheads and therefore did not violate the Security Council Resolution 2231.
On April 1, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, officially noted that Iran was subject to the strongest nuclear verification country in the world and It was implementing not just its safeguards agreement with the Agency, but also its Additional Protocol.
