Missile test: Iran threatened with new sanctions

A team of monitors have revealed that Iran violated a United Nations Security Council resolution last October by test-firing a missile capable of a nuclear warhead.

The declaration by the team is leading calls in the United States for more sanctions against Tehran.

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On the same day that the global nuclear watchdog concluded its 12-year investigation into Iran’s nuclear activities, the White House said it would not rule out additional steps against Iran over the test of the medium-range Emad rocket.

“The launch showed that the rocket met its requirements for considering that a missile could deliver a nuclear weapon,” the Security Council’s Panel of Experts on Iran said in a confidential report.

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