Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Ukraine’s parliament to approve a bill that would put sanctions on Iran for 50 years over its alleged military support for Russia.
According to the Kyiv Independent, the bill would completely ban trade with Iran, block Iranian investments, prevent the withdrawal of Iranian assets from Ukraine, and prohibit technology transfers to the Islamic Republic.
Zelensky’s bill came as Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that Russia launched its largest-ever drone attack on Ukraine, using 54 Iranian-made drones. For their part, Tehran has denied arming Russia with drones after Moscow launched its invasion last year. But the two countries have been increasing economic and military ties as they face similar pressure from the West.
Last week, Zelensky said Iran was sliding into the “dark side of history” for supplying Moscow with drones, prompting a sharp response from Tehran.
According to The Cradle, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani called Zelensky’s comments a “worthless political show staged to provoke the US and certain European states to supply Kiev with more military equipment and financial aid.”
Kanaani said Iran has “always expressed its opposition to the war in Ukraine and its continuation and feels sympathy for the pains and miseries of the Ukrainian people.” He called Zelensky’s comments “delusional claims against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Brilliant.
Perfect!
What “parliament”? Didn’t they literally ban all opposition and non-government media? Single party rule for our freedom-loving friends.
I think Trump actually did Iran a favor when he withdrew from the JCPOA, even though he didn’t intend to. The further removed from the United States that Iran gets the better it is for Iran in the long run. And that’s true for every other nation. China will end up better off if the United States cuts off trade with them, even though that would cause some short term pain. China will make the necessary adjustments, just as Russia has done.
Zelensky the Prima Donna does not ask, he demands the others jump when he says so.
The Ayatollahs must be trembling!
I wonder if the little Hitler understands that most of the world will never buy anything Ukrainian again … Ever.
Whatever gave you that idea? EU its largest and richest neighbor will – that is if Russia does not remove it and or Ukraine from the map. Moreover why would any of the African or other countries dependent on agricultural imports say no to the Ukrainian produce, thereby making what they import more expensive?
True …
If you live in Mexico, you’re probably consuming Ukrainian grain, etc. every day. And will likely continue to do so if it continues being available.
Interesting.. Mexico exports food, not sure why they would buy Ukrainian grain.. but I have to say I have seen very few wheat fields here..
get in line Ukraine
I bet Iran will miss that hundreds of dollars of trade that will be effected.
Actually Iran buys wheat from Ukraine now and if sanction is approved they buy more from Russia… So Ukraine is doing Russia a favor…!
Wheat is full of carbs anyway.
Ukraine issuing sanctions would make a great SNL skit that will never be on TV.
….And one of Ukrainian official said they shut down 52 of those 54 drones…! That is 96% success rate…! So what’s the problem….?!
You may have noticed that shooting down drones is often done with rockets which are more expensive than the drones – so not a long term sustainable strategy for Ukraine (or most other countries than e.g. Saudi Arabia).
No problem on that matter since Ukraine can keep milking US for more weapons…! They don’t have to spend a cent…!
The problem for Ukraine is that their supply of air defense missiles are being rapidly depleted while the west can’t continue to supply them in the quantity needed.
No, I think most of those drones hit their targets and caused the sanction reaction from the Zel boy….!
I tend to suspect that most of the Russian drones were not really shot down, as Ukraine claims. Or else two drones did an awful lot more damage than they should have.
Sure but even the west have a limited number of such missiles.
Oh yeah! American taxpayers do! A win-win for the MIC and Ukraine.
I was actually thinking about that the other night — what would an optimal and cost-conscious defense strategy against drone swarms look like?
I suppose “defensive drone swarms” with IFF transponders and basically suicide algorithm to blow up when a maximum number of the enemy swarm are near it would be one way.
Another, more retro, way would be to go back to the World War 2 idea of just filling the sky with flak and hoping to take out as many as possible.
I’m thinking Gepard is the current most cost-conscious way to address the Shahed type drones, for smaller ones even that is likely overkill – for larger swarms probably some sort of electronic pulse weapon to knock many out at once – though the damage to other electronics may be an issue.
The advantage of the Gepard being that it is mobile and fairly light, though some sort of less ‘tank’ like vehicle might be a much better idea for defense away from the front – with higher amunition capacity and less fuel consumption
In 50 years Ukraine may not exist…! Iran has resisted US sanctions for more than 40 years and existed for more than 2500 years…!