The US on Tuesday formally accused Iran of providing Russia with ballistic missiles and imposed new sanctions on Russian-flagged ships allegedly involved in the weapons transfers.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the new sanctions at a press conference in London with his British counterpart, David Lammy. The US also imposed new sanctions on Iran’s main airline, which will have little impact, if any at all, since it’s already under US sanctions.
For its part, Iran has denied recent reports that said it was sending ballistic missiles to Russia. “The publication of false and misleading reports about the transfer of Iranian weapons to some countries is simply an ugly propaganda to conceal the large illegal arms support of the United States and some Western countries for the genocide in Gaza,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani.
“Some Western countries present themselves as defenders of human rights and support the implementation of international conventions and treaties, but send all kinds of weapons to back the war crimes of the Zionist regime,” Kanaani added.
Blinken said that the US had warned Iran that providing missiles to Russia would be a “dramatic escalation.” Throughout the war in Ukraine, the US has poured weapons into the conflict, including a variety of missiles and cluster bombs, which are banned by over 100 countries due to their indiscriminate nature.
In recent years, Russia and Iran have increased military and economic cooperation, a natural response to US and other Western sanctions that have targeted both nations. Sergey Shoigu, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, said Tuesday that Russia and Iran were close to signing a new agreement to expand cooperation even more.
“We are ready to expand cooperation between our security councils. We continue keeping an eye on issues of the practical implementation of top-level agreements,” Shoigu said, according to TASS. “We hope to sign a new framework interstate agreement soon and are finishing domestic procedures necessary to prepare documents for signing by the presidents.”
It looks, those accusations have more to do with Israel than with Ukraine. Ukraine is just a pretext for a larger U.S. involvement in approaching Israel-Iran escalation.
The target at the moment is Iran.
Need to tie the Ukraine war funding effort to Israel to ensure more traction with politicians.
"It's important we supply weapons to the kind of people in Ukraine who hate the people in Israel that we ALSO supply weapons to who are killing people in Gaza who, as yet, do not directly hate the neo-Nazis in Kiev, which would complete the triangle in this nonsense."
Claiming Iran is the reason for authorizing deep US weapons attacks on Russia is so silly! …How silly is it? …As silly as Blinken flying to Moscow, walking into the Kremlin, walking into Putin's office, and pushing Putin's nuclear button.
Blinken is a hubristic moron. I put nothing past him.
When he sees Netanyahu in Israel, the two probably view videos of the carnage and death rained upon Gaza, clink glasses of champaign, laugh heartily, high five one another.
Then off to Ukraine to high five Z for not bringing peace to Ukraine in 2022.
There are still over 300 U.S. companies operating in Russia. American firms, especially from the fast-moving consumer goods sector (FMCGs), remain some the most profitable in the Russian market, contributing the most to the Kremlin’s war coffers.
https://fortune.com/2024/03/04/over-300-us-companies-still-operate-in-russia-risk-being-complicit-in-the-kremlins-war-crimes/
This is so absurd its funny. He demands our "enemy" stop helping our other "enemy." How about: "Iran Accuses Us of Supplying Ukraine With Ballistic Missiles"
"It's OK 'cause we're the Good Guys !"
The US is like Jeffrey Dahmer accusing someone eating a hamburger of gratuitous animal cruelty.
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/iran-arms-russia-with-ballistic-missiles-for-attacks-on-ukraine-whats-in-the-arsenal-2222
https://united24media.com/latest-news/uk-germany-and-france-to-impose-sanctions-on-iran-over-ballistic-missile-supplies-to-russia-2235
“The US on Tuesday formally accused Iran of providing Russia with ballistic missiles”
And? A country that has sent literally hundreds of billions of $ of weapons to a side is criticizing another for doing a minor amount of the same? Is there a course on chutzpah in the training manual at State?
The USA has a slim chance of beating the Russian Federation, OR the DPRC, OR the IRI in a one-on-one open war.
Actions that tacitly ally two or ALL of those sides together against current & future American war goals towards any ONE of them, does not improve American odds.
Has "divide & conquer" been replaced by "multiply & add" in Washington "strategic" planning ?
To your last question, yes it has. Because winning is not the objective; preparing for and being in conflict is the objective, as it makes $$$.
But one of these days, unintended consequences are going to bite us in the …
aaaa-HEY HEY, KIDS !!!
(Still one of my favorite Krusty the Klown lines)
US doesn't have a chance on a simultaneous attacks from Russia, China, NK and IRI….Whether conventional or nuclear…!