Former DM: Iran's Missile Industry Not Negotiable

Former Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi reiterated the high confidentiality of any information about the country's missile industry and scientists, and said that such information would never become a topic of the nuclear talks between Tehran and the six world powers (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany).

"As Iranian officials have announced many times before, the scope of Iran's missile capability cannot be principally discussed in the negotiations," Brigadier General Vahidi told reporters on Sunday.

The US officials have stated several times that they intend to include Iran's ballistic missile technology in the nuclear talks, while Tehran has repeatedly stressed that it would not allow inclusion of any other topic in the negotiations but those related to its nuclear program.

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