Iran today rejected US President Donald Trump's claims that it is developing missiles capable of hitting the United States, Agence France-Presse reported, BTA reported.
"Everything they are suggesting about Iran's nuclear program, Iran's ballistic missiles and the many victims during the unrest in January is nothing more than repeating big lies," said on the social network "Ex" Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghai.
Iran "has already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases" and is working on creating missiles "capable of reaching the United States", Trump said just hours earlier in his "State of the Union" speech. before the US Congress.
"They [...] are currently pursuing their sinister nuclear ambitions", the US president also said.
"I prefer a diplomatic solution to this problem, but one thing is certain: I will not allow the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism [...] to acquire a nuclear weapon", Trump stressed.
"They want to make a deal, but we haven't heard the key words yet: "We will never have a nuclear weapon", the US president said.
Tehran claims that it has no ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons, but insists on its right to have a nuclear program for peaceful purposes.
On February 6, dialogue between Iran and the US was renewed in the Omani capital Muscat, after nuclear talks between the two broke down last year. countries were suspended after the start of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June, during which Washington bombed Iranian nuclear sites.
Donald Trump also said that authorities in Iran had killed 32,000 people in recent protests there. Iranian authorities have acknowledged the deaths of more than 3,000 people in those demonstrations.