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Rouhani Orders Speed Up of Iran's Missile Program in Response to New U.S. Sanctions
(Fars-Iran) Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday ordered Defense Minister Gen. Hossein Dehqan to enhance and accelerate development of the country's missile capability in response to new U.S. sanctions. "As the United States seems to plan to include the names of new individuals and firms in its previous list of cruel sanctions in line with its hostile policies and illegitimate and illegal meddling in the Islamic Republic of Iran's right to reinvigorate its defense power, the program for the production of the Armed Forces-needed missiles is required to continue more speedily and seriously," President Rouhani's written order read. Rouhani wrote that Tehran has time and again underlined all throughout the nuclear negotiations that it would "never negotiate with anyone about its defense power, including the missile program, and would never accept any restriction in this field."