US to take Iran’s ballistic missile issue to the UN Security Council
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The United States has decided to take the issue of Iran’s new missile tests and the program in general to the UN Security Council in New York where it will be discussed next week.
“We will raise these dangerous launches directly at Council consultations, which we have called for, on Monday,” US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said in a statement, according to Reuters.
“These launches underscore the need to work with partners around the world to slow and degrade Iran's missile program,” she added.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced Tuesday that it had tested several ballistic missiles across the country, despite recent US threats of sanction against such tests.
The missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers were fired from eastern Alborz Mountains at targets on the shores of the Sea of Oman, said commander of Iran’s army.
The tests were “to show Iran's deterrent power and also the Islamic Republic's ability to confront any threat against the (Islamic) Revolution, the state and the sovereignty of the country,” said IRGC official website.
The missile tests come less than two months after the United States imposed new sanctions on a number of companies connected to Iran’s missile program which Washington believes violates last year’s nuclear deal.
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