The Algemeiner reports: Iran will press on with its missile program regardless of Western pressure to halt it, a senior military commander was quoted on Monday as saying.

“Iran’s missile program will continue non-stop and foreign powers have no right to intervene on this issue,” the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Iranian Armed Forces spokesman Masoud Jazayeri as saying.

He also said no Iranian official had permission to “discuss this issue with foreigners,” Tasnim reported.

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