Iran Denies As Confirmed Reports Tell It Supplied Drones For the Russian-Ukraine War
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Sulaiman
- . October 18, 2022
- . Update: November 11, 2022 1:00 am
Iran has been supplying ammunition to Russia to help the latter in their madness to win over Ukraine and no one has approved of this. The United States has recently shown its resentment over Iran having sent drones to Russia which were used to get an edge over the UIran Denies As Confirmed Reports Tell It Supplied Drones For the Russian-Ukraine War krainians in war.
This is in direct violation of the UN Security Council Resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six powers, US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said on Monday in a formal media statement.
As of now US is in tandem with Britain and France that indeed Iran has been supplying these drones, that Ukraine has confirmed as well. This is direct violation of the UN Resolution 2231.
In continuation of the formal statement, Mr. Patel has said, “Earlier today our French and British allies publicly offered the assessment that Iran’s supply of these UAVs (for) Russia is a violation of UN Security Council resolution 2231,” while referring to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones. “This is something that we agree with.”
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Ukraine has reported a spate of Russian attacks using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones in recent weeks. Iran denies supplying the drones to Russia, while the Kremlin has not commented.
Under the resolution, a conventional arms embargo on Iran was in place until October 2020. Despite US efforts under former president Donald Trump, who took the United States out of the deal in 2018, to extend the arms embargo, the Security Council rejected this, paving the way for Iran to resume arms exports.
However, Western diplomats said the resolution still includes restrictions on missiles and related technologies that last until October 2023 and that encompass the export and purchase of advanced military systems such as drones.
