MPs boosts missile funds

Iran’s parliament on Sunday approved more than half a billion dollars in funding for the country’s missile program and foreign operations of the elite Revolutionary Guards in response to US sanctions. The move follows a spike in tensions between Teheran and Washington since US President Donald Trump took office in January with a vow to get tough on the Islamic republic. It mandates the government to allocate an additional $260 million for missile development and the same amount to the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations wing, the Quds Force, state news agency IRNA said.