DUBAI. March 10 (Interfax) - The Iranian missile program and missile tests do not breach the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi-Ansari said on Thursday.
"Iran's missile program and its test-firing of missiles in recent days during a military drill are not against its nuclear commitments and the nuclear deal reached with the six powers," Iranian state television has quoted the diplomat as saying.
Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Aerospace Forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), said on television that the IRGC had never recognized the UN Security Council resolution on the Iranian missile program and would never do so.
Iran test-fired a number of ballistic missiles on Tuesday and Wednesday, in the course of large-scale exercises which caused a strongly negative response from the United States and Western Europe and suggestions that new sanctions be imposed on Tehran.