Defiant Iran Slams Trump: We Won’t Yield To “Useless” Threats, Will Conduct More Ballistic Missile Tests
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Feb 2, 2017
With the US officially warning Iran twice over the past 24 hours in the harshest possible terms yet, when first national security advisor Michael Flynn, and then this morning Trump himself, said Iran has been “put on notice” for “destabilizing activity” after it fired a ballistic missile in defiance of UN resolutions, on Thursday a top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted by Reuters as saying the country would not yield to “useless” U.S. threats from “an inexperienced person” over its ballistic missile program.
As a reminder, Iran said on Wednesday confirmed it had tested a new ballistic missile but said it did not breach a nuclear deal reached with six major powers in 2015 or a U.N. Security Council resolution that endorsed the accord. A U.S. official had said earlier that Iran test-launched the medium-range ballistic missile on Sunday and it exploded after traveling 630 miles (1,010 km). Iran said it was a successful launch.
The IRGC maintains an arsenal of dozens of short and medium-range ballistic missiles – the largest in the Middle East, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.
“This is not the first time that an inexperienced person has threatened Iran … the American government will understand that threatening Iran is useless,” Ali Akbar Velayati said, without identifying any U.S. official specifically in his comments.
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