The administration of US President Joe Biden on Thursday warned Iran of a swift and serious response from the international communityif Tehran provides ballistic missiles to Russia, reports “Reuters”.
Washington has not yet received confirmation, that the missiles have moved from Iran to Russia.
This was stated by the spokesman of the White House for national security, John Kirby, during a briefing.
“In these press reports, the Iranians have made it clear that they will send ballistic missiles to Russia, and we have no reason to believe that they will not follow through,” Kirby said. For our part, we will take this matter to the UN Security Council,” he added. We will apply additional sanctions against Iran. We will coordinate further response options with our allies and partners in Europe and elsewhere.”
Iran delivered hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia
Ukraine has not yet observed their use
We recall that a day earlier it was reported that Iran has begun supplying Russia with a large number of powerful surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. According to three Iranian sources, it is about 400 missiles of the Fateh-110 family, such as the Zolfaghar. They have a range of 300 to 700 km and are launched from a mobile launcher.
This was reported by Reuters, citing six anonymous sources.
One of the sources cited said the final agreement was reached late last year at meetings between the militaries of the two countries in Tehran and Moscow. The first deliveries began, he said, in early January. Another source said at least four batches of missiles had already been shipped and more deliveries would be made in the coming weeks. A third source said the missiles were transported both via the Caspian Sea and by air.
The agency’s interlocutor with knowledge of the number of shipments was quoted as saying: “There will be more shipments. There is no need to hide them. We are allowed to export to any country we want. The UN Security Council’s restrictions on Exports of Iranian missile technology expired in October and would require Russia’s consent to extend them.
A source told Reuters in the US that US intelligence has information about active progress in Russian-Iranian negotiations on the delivery of missiles, but they have not yet confirmed the deliveries themselves.
A Ukrainian military source said the Ukrainian military has yet to observe the use of Iranian missiles on the battlefield.
The defense ministries of Iran, Russia and Ukraine and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which oversees Iran’s missile production, either declined to comment or did not respond to Reuters inquiries.
Since 2022, Iran has supplied Russia with large quantities of Shahed 131/136 strike drones, which Moscow uses almost daily to attack the Ukrainian rear (in Russia, these drones are called Geran-2; there was also information , that their production was partially transferred to Elabuga in Tatarstan).
Iran unveiled new air defense weapons
The Arman missile system can simultaneously engage six targets
In recent weeks, the Russian troops also fired North Korean ballistic missiles at Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian military, they are not very accurate.
The Fateh-110 missile family is much more accurate, Reuters quoted expert Michael Lewis of the Middlebury Institute for International Studies in Monterey, California, as saying. “They are used to attack targets that are of high value and need to be hit,” he said.
2024-02-22 21:38:53
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