(Newswire.net — December 9, 2015) — The United States have received reports of Iran’s alleged testing of medium-range ballistic missile, which put them in two minds and initiated serious review of these reports since the nuclear deal with Iran is approaching its implementation day.
The issue would be brought to the UN Security Council if it turned out that missile test was confirmed, in which case it would be a clear violation of a resolution brought by the United Nations. Iran was very close to fulfilling the conditions it had been presented with in July nuclear deal. These conditions being met, Iran could expect that some of the internationally imposed sanctions could be lifted at the beginning of next year.
After the agreement was made, Iran was highly criticised for developing technology of ballistic missiles with a special concern on making a nuclear warhead that can be attached to them.
Obama administration is also criticised for not taking some more serious action, because it seems that nothing must disturb the nuclear deal progress, which is considered one of the most important accomplishments of this administration’s foreign policy.
“Iran violates UN Security Council resolutions because it knows neither this administration nor the UN Security Council is likely to take any action”,- said Bob Corker, the Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “Instead, the administration remains paralyzed and responds to Iran’s violation with empty words of condemnation and concern”- he added.
It is also debatable why the Security Council is still considering how to respond to Iran’s testing of long-range ballistic missile in October.
There were many comments that Iran did violate the UN resolution according to which Iran should abstain from work on missiles for up to 8 years and ban all missile tests to be performed under that same resolution, but the White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that those violations were ‘entirely separate’ from historic nuclear deal made by Iran and six major world powers.
According to Iranian State News Agency, the head of Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi said:” They have failed to refer to any document that could support their claims, therefore the fabricated case which had troubled Iran for years will be closed forever”.
The US is looking forward to Implementation Day and the lawmakers said in a Thursday statement:” As the nuclear agreement with Iran moves toward Implementation Day, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will initiate a rigorous program to ensure effective Congressional monitoring and oversight”.
What is inevitably present is a fear that when the sanctions are lifted and economic ties with Iran are re-established, it would be very difficult to impose new sanctions again. Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenis said that any such kind of attempt of restoring sanctions would make Iran withdraw from the deal. So should Iran be pressed further?
Robert Einhorn, aformer State Department official involved in the nuclear negotiations said:” It is important for the US to signal it will impose compliance and that violations would mean sanctions could come back. We must make clear that there is a strong US commitment to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and that the US is prepared to use military force to stop them”.
If this monitoring and oversight starts to function, it is unlikely that Iran will be able to do something without being spotted.