"The United Nations Security Council and the European Union criticized Iran's recent ballistic missile tests but didn't take any punitive action...
The Security Council said Monday that Iran's tests, which were carried out on two occasions earlier this month, disrupted the "peaceful environment" and trust between world powers and Tehran that emerged in the wake of last year's comprehensive nuclear deal. But the council needed more technical information, it said, to determine whether or not Iran's actions were a violation of a resolution that was approved after the nuclear deal was reached in July... Russia and China, both of which have veto power on the Security Council, oppose new sanctions on Iran, while the U.S. and some of its allies push for some measure of punishment.
Iran meanwhile has remained defiant. 'We have consistently said that we will continue to expand our military defense. These military equipment have nothing to do with nuclear weapons,' Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Monday...
Since the missiles were launched, Iran's Revolutionary Guards officials have said the tests were designed to target Israel. Israel's Ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, called on the council to take Iran's threat seriously. 'We cannot bury our heads in the sand and hope that the Ayatollahs act responsibly,' he said."