FILE – A Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015 photo from files showing Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, during a press conference at the Lebanese foreign ministry in Beirut, Lebanon. An unusual secret agreement with a U.N. agency will allow Iran to use its own experts to inspect a site allegedly used to develop nuclear arms, according to a document seen by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
DEVELOPING: The Islamic Republican of Iran conducted a ballistic missile launch Sunday in what is clearly a violation of a U.N. resolution barring the such tests. The launch, which was first reported by Fox News and later confirmed, occurred at a well-known test site outside Semnan, located roughly 140 miles east of Tehran.
U.N. resolution 2231–adopted just one day after the Iran nuclear deal was signed–states Iran is “called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology.”
However, this is not the first time Iran has conducted such a test in violation of the resolution, which bars them from conducting ballistic missile tests for eight years and went into effect July 20, 2015. In fact, it’s the second such test since July.
The test was technically a failure, as the Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile flew 600 miles before exploding. Iran defense minister Brigadier Gen. Hossein Dehqan said in September that Iran would start production of the missile and the regime claims the tests are legitimate because they are not designed to carry a nuclear warhead.
Those are the same excuses and tactics used by the regime in North Korea, another nation-state actor Iran has long shared technology with.
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