Hands up who even
imagines Oama will perform the "snap-back" on sanctions he promised if there was any indication Iran breached the terms of the agreement? Or thought there was any chance of them observing them? ............. Thought not...........
Iran violated sanctions with missile test, says UN panel
Iran’s firing of a medium-range ballistic missile in October violated international sanctions banning the Islamic republic from launches capable of delivering nuclear weapons, UN experts have said in a new report. The report submitted to the UN security council and seen by the Associated Press on Tuesday said the launch used ballistic missile technology banned under a June 2010 resolution.
The 10 October launch was the first test of a ballistic surface-to-surface missile after Iran and six world powers reached a landmark nuclear deal on 14 July. The security council endorsed the deal in a resolution on July 20 that also called on Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.........
The report said the missile had a range of at least 1,000km (620 miles) and up to 1,300km with a payload of at least 1,000kg and up to 1,400kg. The panel said any missile with a range of 300km (186 miles) and a payload of 500kg was considered capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
The United States, France, Britain and Germany asked the security council on 12 October to investigate and take “appropriate action” against Iran for the 10 October missile launch. The 11 December report by experts from the council committee monitoring sanctions against Iran supports the contention of the four countries that the firing violated UN sanctions..Whether the security council takes any action remains to be seen.
The US ambassador Samantha Power has accused some unnamed council members of refusing to take action against Iran for sanctions violations in recent months but said the United States would keep pressing for enforcement. “Instead of an effective, timely response the security council has dithered,” she told a council meeting considering a report from the Iran sanctions committee.
She pointed to the lack of action on the 10 October launch, a visit to Moscow by Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, who is subject to a UN travel ban, and the interception off the coast of Oman of a banned shipment of arms from Iran in late September. “This council cannot allow Iran to feel that it can violate our resolutions with impunity,” Power said, stressing the importance of sanctions enforcement for “a credible, enforceable nuclear deal”.
Under the July nuclear deal most sanctions on Iran will be lifted when its provisions are implemented in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme. But the experts’ report noted that “ballistic missile launches would be covered” under the 20 July resolution.
Iranian defence minister General Hossein Dehghan said at the time of the 10 October launch that the missile, named Emad or pillar in Farsi, was a technological achievement for Iran — able to be controlled until the moment of impact and to hit targets “with high precision”. He said it “will obviously boost the strategic deterrence capability of our armed forces”.
The UN panel said it has not yet investigated a subsequent Iranian ballistic missile launch reported by the media on 21 November and therefore “cannot determine whether it was another Emad test”.
Based on video footage of the 10 October launch, the panel said the Emad delivery system was identified as “the Ghadr-1 medium-range single stage liquid-fuelled ballistic missile”. It said the Ghadr-1 was an advanced version of Iran’s Shabab-3 ballistic missile system and the re-entry vehicle had a guidance system and steerable fins...........