Tehran 0
4 January 2021

Iran’s diplomatic spokesperson insisted that “Iran’s defence capability has never been and will not be negotiated… once in the JCPOA and [UN Security Council] Resolution 2231, the issue of missiles has been mentioned and resolved”. His comments came in response to a member of President-elect Joe Biden’s national security team saying that “in that broader negotiation, we can ultimately secure limits on Iran’s ballistic missile technology, and that is what we intend to try to pursue through diplomacy”.

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