It has been confirmed by the United States that on October 10, Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929.
“The United States is deeply concerned about Iran’s recent ballistic missile launch,” the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said in a statement.
“After reviewing the available information, we can confirm that Iran launched on Oct. 10 a medium-range ballistic missile inherently capable of delivering a nuclear weapon,” she said. “This was a clear violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929.”
The United States is preparing a report on the incident for the Security Council’s Iran Sanctions Committee and will raise the matter directly with Security Council members “in the coming days,” Power said.
Council diplomats have told Reuters it was possible to sanction additional Iranian individuals or entities by adding them to an existing U.N. blacklist. However, they noted that Russia and China, which have opposed the sanctions on Iran’s missile program, might block any such moves.
Source: Reuters
What everyone has been telling Obama is coming to pass: Iran is flaunting it’s missiles in defiance of the UN and will likely balk at the milquetoast nuclear agreement Obama made with Iran on July 14. While the world holds its breath at gunpoint, we are expected to wait until the bureaucratic quagmire of the United Nations resolves the issue. Which is really another way of saying the United States has to find a way to resolve the issue. And if treaties don’t work with Iran, which they clearly don’t, where will that lead us?
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