US conducting 'serious review' of latest Iran missile test

The US is conducting a "serious review" of Iran’s second ballistic missile test in as many months in apparent violation of two UN Security Council resolutions, according to the US State Department.

The November 21 launch, Iran’s second since a nuclear accord was signed by Iran and six world powers, comes more than a month after the well-publicized first test in October, Fox News reported.

US Ambassador Samantha Power said Tuesday that if the latest missile test is deemed to be in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, the US would raise it with the Security Council’s sanctions committee.

“I don't want to get ahead of the work the US government is doing,” Power told reporters outside the United Nations Tuesday. “But as happened last time, if we can confirm it, and if there is a violation of any Security Council resolution, we will come here and we will seek appropriate action.”

On Nov. 21 Iran test-fired a medium-range Ghadr-110 ballistic missile from a known test site near the port city of Chabahar in southeast Iran near the border with Pakistan in violation of two existing UN resolutions, a senior US official and Western intelligence sources told Fox News.

Sources: MENA