KYIV. UkraineGate .18 . October . 2022 | War News .
The US State Department agrees with the assessments of the United Kingdom and France that Iran’s supply of drones to Russia would violate a UN Security Council resolution approving the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers. This was stated by US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel .
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“Our French and British allies have publicly expressed the opinion that Iran’s supply of these UAVs (for – ed.) russia is a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231. We agree with that,” Patel said.
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Resolution 2231 approved an agreement between Iran and the United Kingdom, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States that limited Tehran’s uranium enrichment activities, making it difficult for Iran to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for lifting international sanctions.
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since about mid-September, Russia has been conducting attacks in Ukraine using kamikaze drones, which, according to the Ukrainian military, are Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones, which the Russian occupiers mark as “Geran-2”. On September 23, an Iranian-made Mohajer-6 multipurpose strike drone was shot down for the first time.
In particular, on the morning of October 17, Russian troops fired 28 Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in Kyiv, hitting only five. According to the latest data, four people died, among them a young couple who were expecting a child.
Due to Iran’s supply of weapons to Russia for warfare, Ukrainian side decided to deprive the Iranian Ambassador to Ukraine of accreditation and significantly reduce the number of diplomatic staff of the embassy in Kyiv.
After that, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba appealed to the EU Council at the level of Foreign Ministers with a call to impose sanctions against Iran for supplying Russia with weapons.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine officially indicated that the provision of weapons for the war of conquest in Ukraine and the killing of Ukrainian citizens makes Iran complicit in Russian war crimes.
Source: Ukrgate
