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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Iran: Supreme Leader's Top Advisor: Iran will never accept UNSC Resolution on Iran's Defensive Capabilities - esp. missiles

Leader's Aide: UNSC Resolution on Iran's Defensive Capabilities Unacceptable
Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:38
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940507000936


TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Supreme Leader's top adviser for international affairs
Ali Akbar Velayati stressed that Iran will never accept the United Nations
Security Council (UNSC) resolution on Islamic Republic's defensive
capabilities.


On July 20, the UNSC unanimously endorsed a draft resolution turning into
international law the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed by
Iran and the P5+1 group of countries over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear
program.

"The recent UNSC resolution (Resolution 2231) on Iran's defensive
capabilities, specially its missiles, is unacceptable to Iran," Velayati
told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with a science delegation from
the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

He underlined that the Islamic Republic of Iran will never accept that.

"This resolution has been prepared under the influence of expansionist
western states to undermine Iran's defense, and specially missile
capabilities, and it is unacceptable from Iran's point of view," Velayati
added.

He noted that the UNSC measure is aimed at depriving Iran of its
independence, and said, "The goal of these moves by the UNSC which is under
their (the western powers') influence is to deprive Iran of its
Islamic-Iranian identity, independence and territorial integrity, but Iran
will not accept this and other similar resolutions."

All 15 members of the UNSC voted for the draft UN resolution in New York on
Monday, setting the stage for the lifting of Security Council sanctions
against Iran.

The text of the draft UN resolution calls for the “full implementation” of
the Vienna agreement “on the timetable established,” and urges UN member
countries to facilitate the process.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry in a statement last Monday ensured that the
country's ballistic missile program and capability is untouched and
unrestricted by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231.

"Within this framework, Iran's military capabilities, including its
ballistic missiles, are exclusively for legitimate defense; these equipment
have not been designed for the capability to carry nuclear payloads and
thus, fall outside the scope and the jurisdiction of the UNSC resolution and
its annexes," the Iranian foreign ministry statement stressed.

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