The United States will be against companies and countries cooperating with Iran to develop drones that attack Ukrainian cities impose sanctions.
After attacks on Kyiv using Iranian kamikaze drones, the US State Department announced that sanctions would be imposed against companies and governments cooperating with Iran in the development of such drones.
This was announced during a press conference on Monday, October 17, by State Department spokesman Vedant Patel.
“Anyone who does business with Iran and may have something to do with the development of drones or ballistic missiles, as well as the supply of weapons from Iran to Russia, must be very careful and exercise due diligence, since the US And they will not hesitate to impose sanctions or other measures against violators,” he said.
According to him, the strengthening of the alliance between Moscow and Tehran should be regarded as a serious threat to the whole world.
Representative The State Department also noted that, according to US intelligence, some of the Iranian drones sold to Russia turned out to be defective. According to him, the purchase of such weapons from Iran indicates that Russia is experiencing huge problems and “is forced to turn to such unreliable countries for equipment.”
On the same day, during a press conference, Bely's press secretary at home Karine Jean-Pierre accused Tehran of lying because of the denial of the fact that Russia uses Iranian drones in Ukraine.
Recall that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called on Iran to stop supplying weapons to Russia in the war against Ukraine and threatened responsibility for complicity in aggression.
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