Washington threatened on Monday (17/10) to impose sanctions on companies or states cooperating in Iran’s program to build remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), after series of plagues in Ukraine with drones where Kyiv and the USA they believe it was of Iranian manufacture.
“Anyone doing business with Iran in terms of developing drones or ballistic missiles, or (participating in) the transfer of weapons from Iran to Russia, would do well to watch out.”said Vedant Patel, his spokesman State Department.
“The U.S. will not hesitate to resort to sanctions or take action against the key perpetrators”he continued.
“The strengthening of the alliance between Russia and Iran should be considered by the whole world as a very serious danger”added the US diplomatic representative during the regular briefing of accredited editors.
Citing information from US intelligence services, Mr. Patel also claimed that some of the Iranian UAVs sold to Russia had malfunctions.
The fact that Moscow turned to Tehran for supplies testifies, according to him, to “tremendous pressure” that Russia accepts, after the losses it suffered in Ukraine, that it is now as it sees it “obliged to resort to less reliable countries, such as Iran, to procure material and equipment”.
In addition, the State Department spokesman assessed that the deliveries of UAVs to Moscow violate UN Security Council Resolution 2231 – which ratified the JCPOA, the 2015 international agreement on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program, which provided for a strict limitation in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.
The JCPOA, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which Iran had signed with the US, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany, appears to be in death throes, four years after the unilateral decision by the US president at the time Donald Trump to withdraw his country from the agreement and then the progressive abandoning of the commitments undertaken by Tehran.
The Russian strikes, using mainly kamikaze UAVs, claimed the lives of at least eight people, four in Kyiv, on Monday morning. They targeted energy infrastructure in various sectors of Ukraine, a week after massive bombing by Russia’s military in retaliation for the attack that partially destroyed the Crimean bridge.
Source: News Beast
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