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Iran's Foreign Ministry says the country will continue to enhance its missile capabilities in defiance of the "destructive" fresh U.S. sanctions over the Islamic Republic's missile program, Iran's Press TV reported.
“We will respond to such propaganda stunts and disruptive measures by more robustly pursuing our lawful missile program and promoting our defense capabilities and national security,” said the statement by Iran’s Foreign Ministry read out by its spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari during his weekly press briefing on Monday, according to Press TV.
The statement is seen as a response to the recent move by the United States to announce new sanctions against Iran for its ballistic missile program.
Tehran says the country will firmly respond to such “propaganda measures.”
Read alsoFT: US imposes more Iran sanctions over missile programmeAs reported earlier, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said in a statement on Sunday that it has imposed new sanctions on several individuals and firms over Iran's ballistic missile program, claiming that the program “poses a significant threat to regional and global security.”
The statement said five Iranian citizens and a network of companies based in the United Arab Emirates and China were added to a U.S. blacklist.