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Tuesday 19 April 2016 - 21:19
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Iran has not violated commitments on ballistic missile launches - Moscow

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Tehran has not breached its international commitments on ballistic missile launches.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) Moscow believes that Iran has not violated its international commitments onballistic missile launches, the head ofthe Russian Foreign Ministry's Department forNon-Proliferation and Arms Control said Tuesday.

"The Iranians are not violating anything. There is not a word inthe Joint Comprehensive Plan ofAction (JCPOA) aboutmissiles, only the [UN] resolution, tobe more precise the addendum tothe resolution mentions them. But again, we are talking abouta 'call upon' [not actual ban]," Mikhail Ulyanov said.

"It is impossible toviolate an appeal, it can only be ignored, and that's what is happeningSo, the accusations [against Iran] sound unconvincing, because the new resolution mentions only nuclear-capable missilesbut nobody has ever managed toprove that those [Iranian] missiles have been specifically designed tocarry nuclear warheads," Ulyanov stressed.

Western officials claim that Iran's recent ballistic missile tests involved missiles capable ofdelivering nuclear weapons and were carried outin defiance ofUNSC resolution 2231, adopted last July toendorse the JCPOA.

By Sputnik News
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