Iran has denounced new sanctions imposed by the US over its ballistic missile programme calling them illegal and hypocritical. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari said: “The US sanctions against Iran’s ballistic missile program … have no legal or moral legitimacy” “America sells tens of billions of dollars of weaponry each year to countries in the region,” Ansari added “These weapons are used in war crimes against Palestinian, Lebanese and most recently Yemeni citizens.” On Sunday, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on 11 companies and individuals for helping to supply Iran’s ballistic missile program. The Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said that Iran will unveil new domestically-designed and manufactured missiles in the near future in defiance of new US sanctions. Press TV reports: “[Any] attempt to impose new sanctions [against Iran] under irrelevant pretexts is indicative of the continued US hostile policy and acrimony toward the Iranian nation, and a futile effort to undermine Iran’s defense might,” Dehqan said on Monday. He added that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s missile industry is fully domestically-manufactured and anchored in science and expertise of the country’s defense sector. “Hence, sanctions against [certain] people and companies will have no impact on the development of [...]