Israel's foreign minister said Tuesday that Iran's claim to have tested two new missiles proved it was still a "warmongering" state despite its recent diplomatic overtures to the West.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's remarks came on the eve of an official visit to France, which is taking part in talks on Iran's controversial nuclear program set to resume next week in Vienna.

President Hassan Rouhani called for "fair and constructive" nuclear talks Tuesday as Iranians marked the 35th anniversary of the Islamic revolution amid recent progress in negotiations with world powers.

Rouhani, a moderate elected last year on vows to pursue a diplomatic solution to the decade-long impasse over Iran's nuclear program, also warned that Western nations should not have "delusions" about having a military option.

Iran's ballistic missile program will not be discussed in nuclear negotiations with world powers, the deputy foreign minister said in statements published Monday.

The remarks by Abbas Araqchi, who is also Iran's lead negotiator in talks with world powers, came a week before negotiations were to resume on a comprehensive accord over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Israel on Sunday denounced an Iranian announcement that it was sending naval ships towards the United States as further evidence that loosening sanctions on Tehran was counterproductive.

The move to send warships to the Atlantic was announced by the commander of Iran's northern naval fleet on Saturday, who described it as a "message."

Iran's atomic energy organisation said talks Saturday with the U.N. atomic watchdog over Tehran's nuclear program were constructive and have been extended for another day.

"The negotiations between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency have been good, constructive and are progressing," the official IRNA news agency quoted spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi as saying.

The U.N. atomic agency resumes talks in Tehran Saturday to tackle allegations of past Iranian weapons work and discuss more practical steps to increase the transparency of the country's nuclear drive.

The one-day encounter between Iran and the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency will build on a framework deal agreed in November that required Tehran to take six practical steps by next Tuesday.

The Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc hailed on Friday the Bkirki Treaty that was announced by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, saying that it helps “fortify Lebanon's immunity because it asserts national principles stipulated in the Baabda Declaration.”

It said after its weekly meeting that the treaty “adds central meanings to the Lebanese national entity.”

The United States blacklisted Thursday individuals and companies worldwide for violating its sanctions regime on Iran, even as it has slightly eased those sanctions as nuclear talks progress.

The Treasury Department said the sanctions also were aimed at supporters of terrorism.

Iran will soon resume diplomatic ties with Morocco, severed by Rabat four years ago over Tehran's alleged meddling in the affairs of Bahrain and of Morocco itself, a senior official said Thursday.

"Following a recent phone call between the foreign ministers of the two countries, (they) agreed to resume diplomatic relations," Mehr news agency quoted the deputy foreign minister for Arab affairs, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, as saying.

Iran's outreach to the West signifies a new pragmatic approach to foreign policy after eight years of isolation but does not mark a radical shift in its ideologies and principles, analysts say.

President Hassan Rouhani has made some headway in wooing world leaders by presenting a more moderate Iranian profile than did his hardline predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the experts say.