Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Saturday (October 15) that it has not supplied Russia with weapons “to be used in the war in Ukraine”.
This comes amid Ukraine and the West claiming that Moscow uses Iranian-made drones in attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks.
After last week’s missile attacks on Ukrainian cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian forces used Iranian drones in attacks.
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But, rejecting all the claims, Iran reiterated that it didn’t provide Russia with weapons for the ongoing Ukraine war.
The Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement that Amir-Abdollahian “emphasised that the Islamic Republic of Iran has not and will not provide any weapon to be used in the war in Ukraine.”
The Iranian foreign minister said in a call with his Portuguese counterpart Joao Gomes Cravinho that “we believe that the arming of each side of the crisis will prolong the war. We have not considered and do not consider war to be the right path either in Ukraine or in Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.”
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Amir-Abdollahian reiterated Iran’s official stance of neutrality over the war in a separate phone call with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday.
He said, “We have defence cooperation with Russia, but our policy regarding the war in Ukraine is not sending weapons to the conflicting parties, stopping the war and ending the displacement of people.”
Iran has claimed multiple times that it didn’t supply weapons to Russia for war but last month, Kyiv decided to significantly reduce its diplomatic relations with Tehran over alleged arms deliveries to Moscow.
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