U.S. officials have said they are permitted to respond to the missile test by imposing fresh sanctions against a list of Iranian individuals and businesses linked to the missile programme.
Any such sanctions would be far narrower than the broad measures scheduled to be lifted under the nuclear deal. But Iran says any new sanctions could torpedo the wider accord.
Republican lawmakers who control both houses of the U.S. Congress see the plans for new sanctions as a test of the Obama administration’s resolve.
The Wall Street Journal reported that an announcement of new U.S. sanctions was planned for this week but delayed for an unspecified period without explanation.
Rouhani, a relative moderate elected in 2013, has insisted that the nuclear deal does not include any offer to reduce Iran’s missile arsenal. On Thursday he ordered his defence minister to expand Iran’s missile programme.
Iran’s senior nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday Iran’s October missile test did not violate the July nuclear accord, known as JCPOA.
“There is a clear difference between the JCPOA issue and the missile test and the missile test is not a breach of the JCPOA in any way,” he was quoted as saying by Press TV.
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