Iranian-made Fateh 110 and Persian Gulf missiles are seen next to portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei at Baharestan square in southern Tehran — FILE PHOTO: Iranian-made Fateh 110 (Conqueror) (L) and Persian Gulf (R) missiles are seen next to a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei . REUTERS

Iran Says Its Missile Program Is Not Negotiable

July 16, 2019

UNITED NATIONS, July 16 (Reuters) – Iran on Tuesday said its ballistic missile program was not up for negotiation after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a White House cabinet meeting that Iran had signaled it was prepared to negotiate about it.

“Iran‘s missiles … are absolutely and under no condition negotiable with anyone or any country, period,” Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for the Iranian mission at the United Nations, wrote on Twitter.

(Reporting By Michelle Nichols at the United Nations and by Susan Heavey in Washington Writing by Arshad Mohammed Editing by Jonathan Oatis)