TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian lawmakers in a statement on Sunday asked the country's armed forces to conduct missile drills as soon and as more as possible, a demand that has been repeatedly made after a UN Security Council resolution in support of the Iran-powers nuclear deal made some mention of Iran's missile program.

The statement called on Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi to give more serious thoughts to the non-binding nature of the UN Security Council's resolution 2231 on Iran's nuclear program and display the Armed Forces' might and power to the world by staging missile maneuvers.

It also underlined that nuclear warhead production has and will never come on Iran's agenda, reiterating that the country's missile power is only meant for defensive and deterrence purposes.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran's missiles have not been and will not be designed for carrying nuclear warheads and therefore, cannot be restricted," the statement added.

It asked Firouzabadi to provide the ground for carrying out missile tests, and stressed that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Defense Ministry's drills should be staged based on the preplanned and approved programs.

After the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the world powers in Vienna on July 14, all 15 members of the UNSC voted for the draft UN resolution in New York, setting the stage for the lifting of Security Council sanctions against Iran.

The text of the draft UN resolution calls for the �full implementation� of the Vienna agreement �on the timetable established,� and urges UN member countries to facilitate the process.

After the approval of the resolution, the Iranian Foreign Ministry in a statement ensured that the country's ballistic missile program and capability is untouched and unrestricted by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231.

"Within this framework, Iran's military capabilities, including its ballistic missiles, are exclusively for legitimate defense; these equipment have not been designed for the capability to carry nuclear payloads and thus, fall outside the scope and the jurisdiction of the UNSC resolution and its annexes," the Iranian foreign ministry statement stressed.

An increasing number of Iranians are demanding the country's Armed Forces to stage a ballistic missile drills after the Iranian and American negotiators presented different interpretations on a paragraph of an annex to the UNSC Resolution 2231.

Students of 9 universities in Tehran in a letter to Firouzabadi earlier this month demanded him to arrange a set of exercises to fire home-made mid and long-range ballistic missiles.

Also in a separate statement this month, students at the Islamic seminary in the holy city of Qom, referred to the paragraph in the UNSC resolution annex which calls for curbing Iran's ballistic missile capability, and underlined the necessity for protecting the country's defense capabilities and ensuring continued development of Iran's ballistic missile capability.

The students told Firouzabadi that firing ballistic missiles in military drills would discourage the US Congress, the Israeli Knesset and their regional Takfiri mercenaries from future strikes against the Islamic Republic.

In reaction to the demands, Iranian Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced that his forces would stage specialized drills by the end of the current Iranian year (started on March 21) using home-made missiles.

"The Ground Force will stage 6 wargames by the end of this year," Pourdastan told reporters in Tehran on Thursday.

He said that one of the drills would be staged in the Western parts of the country in autumn.

The Iranian ground force would also have its second wargames in Eastern provinces later in autumn, Pourdastan said, adding that a specialized missile drilling would be done by the end of this year.

By Fars News Agency