by FarsNews
Iranian officials have on different occasions underscored that the country's missile program is non-negotiable, stressing that the talks with the six world powers are limited to the nuclear issue.
TEHRAN
(FNA)- Vice-Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and
Foreign Policy Commission Mansour Haqiqatpour underlined the
parliament's strong opposition to any restrictions on Iran's ballistic
missiles program under a final nuclear deal.
"No
one can impose any restrictions on our defensive capabilities and we
act according to our defensive strategy in this field," Haqiqatpour told
FNA on Monday.
He reiterated that the Vienna talks merely focus
on nuclear issues and "the other side cannot interfere in our military
and defensive issues to impose restrictions".
"We will not accept any non-nuclear restrictions
in the agreement and, as Iran has reiterated since the beginning of the
negotiations, the agreement is only on nuclear issues," Haqiqatpour
added.
Iranian officials have on different occasions
underscored that the country's missile program is non-negotiable,
stressing that the talks with the six world powers are limited to the
nuclear issue.
On Saturday, Commander of the IRGC Major General
Mohammad Ali Jafari underlined that there are still some concerns
lingering about the sum-up agreement reached between Tehran and the
Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) and
the relevant draft resolution to be adopted by the UN Security Council.
"There are some concerns about the sum-up of the
nuclear negotiations and the draft resolution of the UN Security
Council," Major General Jafari told reporters.
"We should still see what happens in practice," he said.
He pointed to his talks with Head of the Atomic
Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi on the same issue,
and said, "I have just spoken to Mr. Salehi about the same issues and
there is a concern, specially about the resolution, that we hope will be
resolved God willingly."
Also on Saturday, Deputy Commander of the IRGC for
Political Affairs Brigadier General Rasoul Sanayee Raad reiterated that
Tehran would never accept its defensive capabilities, specially its
ballistic missile program, to come under negotiation in any talks.
"Iran's military capabilities, including access to
ballistic missiles, are no bargaining chip or agenda," Brigadier
General Sanayee Raad told FNA.
He reiterated that supporting the nuclear
negotiating team does not mean accepting all conditions of the other
side, and said, " Negotiations between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US,
Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) will be merely confined
to nuclear issues."
In relevant remarks in March, Commander of the
IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh underlined
that the Islamic Republic of Iran would never accept negotiating its
ballistic missiles and other defense capabilities with the world powers.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran's nation, government
and Armed Forces all believe that the country's defensive capabilities,
specially the ballistic missiles, will never be negotiable at all. This
is a message which should be understood by the bullying powers which
raise excessive demands," Hajizadeh said, addressing a ceremony to
unveil a new long-range ground-to-ground cruise missile system, named
'Soumar', in Tehran on March 8.
He downplayed the effects of sanctions on Iran's
defensive programs, and said the Soumar missile system unveiling
ceremony had this message for the country's opponents that such hi-tech
products and capabilities are developed and produced in large numbers,
while Iran is under the toughest "sanctions that are described by the
enemies as harsh and bitter".
Iran and the six world powers struck a deal in Vienna on Tuesday.
The hitherto elusive agreement was finally nailed
down on Tuesday in the ritzy Palais Coburg Hotel in the Austrian capital
of Vienna, where negotiators from Iran and the six other countries had
recently been spending over two weeks to work out the remaining
technical and political issues.
The agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA), will be presented to the United Nations Security Council
(UNSC) on Monday to adopt a resolution in the following two days to
make the JCPOA an official document.
FarsNews
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