Iran Guards Defy Trump With Vow to Boost Missile Program

The Guards comments are “very much expected and in line with the general rhetoric out of Iran,” said Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. There is now an alignment “between all the different centers of power both in terms of what to do with the nuclear deal, and Iran’s defense program and broader activities in region,” she said.