Lavrov: Iran Missiles Don’t Violate UN Resolution
MOSCOW (Dispatches) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday Iran’s defensive missile program is part of its "national interests,” asserting that new U.S. sanctions against Tehran are "illegitimate” and only harm the nuclear deal between Tehran and the P5+1.
Lavrov said Iran’s development of an array of ballistic missiles does not violate the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2231, adopted in July 2015 to endorse the landmark nuclear agreement. "The missile program is Iran’s internal affair. Iran is not prohibited from having it," Lavrov said. "The UN Security Council’s resolution contains no legal bans on that score."