AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Moscow has stated that it will continue military and technical collaboration with Iran against the background of the expiry of a longstanding United Nations ban on arms sales to and from the Islamic Republic.
“Russia is developing multi-aspect cooperation with Iran and cooperation in the military-technical sphere will proceed depending on needs of the parties and mutual readiness to such cooperation in a calm fashion,” Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister, announced on Sunday.
Moscow, Ryabkov siad, is not at all afraid of US sanctions becuase the Kremlin is accustomed to this kind of behavior.
In line with the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the UN Security Council’s embargo on trade in conventional weapons with the Islamic Republic terminated on Sunday.
The historic nuclear deal had been endorsed by the Security Council in the form of Resolution 2231.
In an official statement issued on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry stated, “As of today, the Islamic Republic may procure any necessary arms and equipment from any source without any legal restrictions, and solely based on its defensive needs, and may also export defensive armaments based on its own policies.”
The Trump Administration suffered great embarrassment on August 14 when it failed to keep in palce the arms embargo on Iran through a resolution at the Security Council. During the 15-member Council vote on that day, the US received support only from the Dominican Republic for its anti-Iran resolution, leaving it far short of the minimum nine ‘yes’ votes need for adoption.
Trump, a hawkish critic of the JCPOA, unilaterally withdrew the United states from the accord in May 2018, and unleashed the “toughest ever” sanctions on the Islamic Republic to strangle its economy in defiance of global criticism.
Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, announced on October 15 that Russia will consider military-technical cooperation with Iran in line with mutual interests subsequent to the expiration of the embargo. “We are convinced that all possibilities stemming from the expiration of the provisions of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 that are linked with military technical cooperation with Iran will be duly taken into account and used on the basis of mutual benefit and in the interests of the peoples of our two states,” the Russian official stated.
Kazem Jalali, Iran’s Ambassador to Moscow, remarked on Saturday that the Islamic Republic will use “with prudence” the chance that will be provided by the expiration of the arms embargo. “Iran will definitely cooperate with interested countries in the technical-military field and in the procurement of equipment it needs,” Jalali added.
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source : Hausa TV
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19 October 2020
7:32:52 AM
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Moscow has stated that it will continue military and technical collaboration with Iran against the background of the expiry of a longstanding United Nations ban on arms sales to and from the Islamic Republic.