Library Documents on Iran's Missile Program
May 11, 2020
Tehran, May 11, IRNA – The Iranian Navy has reported an accident during a military drill in the country's southern waters.According to the Public Relations of the 1st Maritime District of Navy of Iranian Army in Bandar Abbas, one Iranian was martyred and a number of others injured during a military drill in Iran's territorial waters on Sunday.The...
May 11, 2020
Tehran, May 11, IRNA – Some 19 Navy personnel have been martyred with some 15 others injured in an accident happened to an Iranian vessel in the course of drills in southern Iran, the Navy said in a statement on Monday.The statement said that those injured are in satisfactory conditions.Rescue and relief operations began soon after the incident...
May 11, 2020
President sent a letter to express condolences over the martyrdom of a number of brave sailors of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy in a tragic accident for a naval vessel, praying of those who have lost their lives and wishing swift recovery for the injured.President Hassan Rouhani's letter reads:In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the...
April 30, 2020
MS ORTAGUS: Thank you. Happy Thursday afternoon, everybody. We will have an on-the-record briefing today. Per usual, this is embargoed until the end of the call, please. As Secretary Pompeo indicated yesterday, the United States is firm in its position that come October of this year the Iranian regime will not be able to buy convention weapons...
April 28, 2020
Q. What is France’s position on the end of the embargo on the sale of conventional weapons to Iran in 2020, enshrined in the JCPoA? Will France ask for an extension of that embargo?A. France is deeply committed to respecting the Vienna Agreement and UN Security Council Resolution 2231.This October’s lifting of the UN arms embargo established by...
April 27, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement in response to media reports that the Trump administration is moving to invoke the snapback mechanism in United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231:
April 27, 2020
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to last week’s launch of a military satellite by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC):
April 25, 2020
For years, Iran has claimed its space program is purely peaceful and civilian. The Trump Administration has never believed this fiction. This week’s launch of a military satellite by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, makes clear what we have said all along: Iran’s space program is neither...
April 24, 2020
[...]QUESTION: Well, I’m doing fine. It is Friday. That’s always nice when we come to the end of the week. And I’m sure you’ve had a busy week with what’s been happening with – I’ll just stick with Iran, for one, as they have reportedly launched a satellite, a military satellite, revealing a space program that many were not aware of. What do we...
April 24, 2020
A Foreign Office spokesperson said:Reports that Iran has carried out a satellite launch – using ballistic missile technology – are of significant concern and inconsistent with UN Security Council Resolution 2231. The UN has called upon Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering...