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Iran on Saturday condemned new sanctions passed by the United States Congress against its missile program, which President Donald Trump is set to sign into law, and vowed to continue it, according to the Times of Israel.

“We will continue with full power our missile program,” foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi told state broadcaster IRIB.

"We consider the action by the United States as hostile, reprehensible and unacceptable, and it's ultimately an effort to weaken the nuclear deal," Ghasemi added, referring to a 2015 agreement with the United States and other world powers that lifted some sanctions on Tehran.

“The military and missile fields… are our domestic policies and others have no right to intervene or comment on them.

“We reserve the right to reciprocate and make an adequate response to the US actions,” he said.

The sanctions bill, which also targets Russia and North Korea, was passed by the US Senate on Thursday, two days after being approved by the House of Representatives.

Separately on Friday, Washington imposed new sanctions targeting Iran’s missile program a day after Tehran tested its Simorgh satellite satellite-launch rocket.

As Al Jazeera reports, in a joint statement on Friday, Britian, France and Germany joined the US in condemning the satellite-launch rocket test, saying it was in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution.