Tehran denies arms transfers and calls new sanctions “financial terrorism.”
Iran has condemned accusations by Western nations that it has provided short-range missiles to Russia to be used towards Ukraine and has pledged to answer new sanctions imposed by a trio of European states.
International Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani, in an announcement issued late on Tuesday, reiterated Iran’s denial of getting provided weapons and known as the sanctions introduced by Britain, France and Germany “financial terrorism” towards the individuals of Iran.
He pledged that each one three European nations would take “acceptable and proportionate motion.”
France, Germany and the UK introduced the sanctions on the identical day after the US formally accused Iran of supplying arms to Moscow.
The measures revoke bilateral agreements to offer air providers to Iran and impose sanctions on the flag provider Iran Air that may limit its skill to fly to Europe.
“As well as, we are going to search the designation of key entities and people concerned in Iran’s ballistic missile program and the switch of ballistic missiles and different weapons to Russia,” the three European states mentioned.
The Iranian spokesman’s assertion didn’t point out comparable sanctions introduced by the US.
“Any declare that the Islamic Republic of Iran has offered ballistic missiles to the Russian Federation is totally baseless and false,” Kanaani mentioned.
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, talking alongside British International Secretary David Lammy throughout a go to to London, mentioned Russia had acquired shipments of ballistic missiles from Iran and would “probably use them inside weeks in Ukraine.”
Warning that cooperation between Moscow and Tehran threatens broader European safety, he added that dozens of Russian navy personnel had acquired coaching in Iran on the usage of the Fath-360 missile, which has a spread of 120 kilometers (75 miles).
In a put up on X, Kanaani mentioned studies of the alleged transfers had been “nasty propaganda” used to cover “giant unlawful arms assist from the US and a few Western nations to the genocide in Gaza.”
Iran is already one of the crucial sanctioned nations on this planet, and a few consultants have questioned the influence of extra financial sanctions that would hit the nation’s center lessons tougher than its leaders.
