DUBAI: Iran's defense minister said on Wednesday the Islamic Republic had tested a new missile, but added the test did not breach Tehran's nuclear accord with world powers or a U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the pact.Iran has test-fired several ballistic missiles since the nuclear deal in 2015, but this is the first during US President Donald Trump's administration. Trump said in his election campaign that he would stop Iran's missile program. "The recent test was in line with our plans and we will not allow foreigners to interfere in our defense affairs," Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan said, according to Tasnim news agency. "The Islamic Republic of Iran is against weapons of mass destruction, so its missile capability is the only available deterrence against enemy hostility," the parliamentarians said in a statement carried on state media on Wednesday.The UN Security Council resolution, adopted in a deal to curb Iran's nuclear activities, called upon Iran to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons. He said he would ask Trump in their meeting in February for the renewal of sanctions against Iran.

Source: Times of India February 01, 2017 10:07 UTC