Iran's foreign ministry on Tuesday rejected a U.N. panel report alleging that it has been exchanging ballistic missile expertise and components with North Korea in violation of U.N. sanctions.
Iran
's
foreign ministry on Tuesday rejected a U.N. panel report alleging that it has
been exchanging ballistic missile expertise and components with
North
Korea
in violation of U.N.
sanctions.
"We have always rejected as propaganda and fabrications [reports] of
cooperation between us and
North
Korea
on the transfer of technology
or transfer of ballistic missile components," ministry spokesman Ramin
Mehmanparast told a weekly briefing.
He said that
Iran
's
missile capabilities had reached "such a level that we do not need the
technology and spare parts from other countries."
Mehmanparast was speaking in response to a U.N. sanctions report, which
Beijing
is
seeking to block, that says
Tehran
and
Pyongyang
are
suspected of sharing ballistic missile technology.
Diplomats said a Chinese representative on a U.N. panel of seven experts on
North Korea nuclear sanctions refused to sign on to the report, which said
prohibited material was moved through a "neighboring third country."
The country is not named in the report, excerpts of which were passed to AFP,
but diplomats said it was
China
,
North
Korea
's closest ally and
Iran
's
main trade partner.
China
had
blocked an earlier report in February which called for additional sanctions
against
Pyongyang
,
already under two sets of sanctions for conducting two atomic tests in 2006 and
2009.
Iran
says
its missile programme is home-grown but Western analysts say some of its
weapons are derivatives of North Korean models.
Combined with its controversial nuclear programme,
Iran
's
ballistic programme has raised concerns that it might acquire the know-how for
a delivery system for a nuclear warhead, an ambition
Tehran
strongly denies.
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