TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iran's leadership kept defiant on the UN Security Council sanction resolution and recent U.S. military pressure Sunday by launching a new round of war games and hardline verbalisms from top officials over Tehran's nuclear program.

    The state-run television Sunday morning reported that the elite Revolutionary Guards would start from Sunday a three-day missile-test maneuvers near Garmsar city which locates about 100 km southeast of Tehran and near a desert.

    "Zalzal and Fajr-5 missiles will be test fired in the war game," an unnamed commander of the guards was quoted by the television assaying, noting that both are considered short-range missiles.

    "The maneuver is aimed at evaluating defensive and fighting capabilities of the missiles," the commander added.

    The drills are to be the first after the UN Security Council passed resolution 1737 last December, calling on Tehran to suspend its enrichment activities and imposing sanctions on Iran's nuclear and missile program.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards fire the Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missile in the desert outside the holy city of Qom, November 2006. (AFP File Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    The war game came against the backdrop that the United States deployed its second aircraft carrier, the USS John C. Stennis to the Gulf Region recently.

    The U.S. military officials has said that this move was a warning for Iran not to intervene Iraq's internal affairs, saying Tehran's leadership should understand that U.S. military capability has not been weakened by four-year long war in Iraq.

    Some Western and Arabic media reports have disclosed that the U.S. government had decided to lunch attack against Iran's nuclear sites from the sea before this April and would deploy PAC-3 anti-aircraft missile systems in Arab countries, but U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and White House have denied the rumors, saying the U.S. currently has no intention to attack Iran.

    Echoing the maneuvers, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that imposing pressures and sanctions on the Islamic Republic would be fruitless, keeping defiant on the UN sanctions.

    Ahmadinejad made the remarks when he submitted his government's annual budget bill for the new year to the Majlis(Parliament). "Sanctions are viewed as an old fashion, rusty and inefficient weapon today...the resolution(1737) was delivered dead. Even ten more similar resolutions can not affect our economy and our policy," he asserted.

    Referring to the U.S. attacking rumor, the president termed it as a psychological war, saying "They say war is coming. What war? It is all propaganda."

    Ahmadinejad has said Thursday that his country was ready for any threat over the nuclear program, stressing "Iran is ready for anything on this path, we are intending to fulfill the nuclear project with the least expense".

    Meanwhile, Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, on the sidelines of accompanying President Ahmadinejad, said "Iran's nuclear rights are not negotiable and resolutions which deprive our country of its recognized rights lack credibility from our point of view".

    Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Sunday also reiterated that Tehran had not changed its nuclear stances and was still pursuing the same goals.

    "The official stance of the ruling system in the nuclear issue is the result of contemplation, discussion and a consensus gained at the country's Supreme National Security Council, thus, the country's nuclear stance is supported by all," he was quoted by the local Fars news agency as saying.

    Stressing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was informed of all Iran's nuclear activities, the spokesman said "we do not accept suspension of the nuclear activities because such a demand lacks legality and rationality".