“Anyone engaged in activity with Iran in terms of developing drones or ballistic missiles, or (involved in) moving weapons from Iran to Russia, would do well to be careful,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said.
Washington on Monday threatened to impose sanctions on companies or states that cooperate in Iran’s program to build remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), following a series of strikes in Ukraine by drones that Kyiv and the US believe were Iranian-made.
“Anyone engaged in activity with Iran in terms of developing drones or ballistic missiles, or (involved in) moving weapons from Iran to Russia, would do well to be careful,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said.
“The US will not hesitate to resort to sanctions or to take measures against the main perpetrators,” he continued.
“The strengthening of the alliance between Russia and Iran should be considered by the whole world (…) a very serious danger,” added the representative of the US diplomacy 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 the “tremendous pressure” that Russia is under, after the losses it suffered in Ukraine, that now, as he sees it, it is “obliged to take refuge in countries that are hardly reliable, like 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.
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