Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday warned the United States new administration against creating new tensions with Tehran over ballistic missile tests. “We hope that Iran’s defense program is not used by the new US administration… as a pretext to create new tensions,” Zarif said in a televised ...
Russia on Tuesday said that a reported ballistic missile test by Iran does not contravene a United Nations resolution on Tehran’s nuclear program, after the US requested emergency UN consultations. “Such actions, if they took place, do not breach the resolution,” Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov told Interfax news ...