Iran denies allegations that it supplied Russia with drones

UNITED NATIONS – Iran's U.N. typical sharply denied Western allegations that Tehran supplied Moscow with a fleet of drones for usage successful Ukraine.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran has taken a wide and accordant presumption connected the concern successful Ukraine which has been pronounced since the commencement of the conflict," Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, told reporters.

"Iran has consistently advocated for bid and the contiguous extremity to the struggle successful Ukraine," Iravanai said.

He added that the claims are "unfounded and unsubstantiated" and said that the West was mounting a disinformation run against his country. Iravanai, who took nary questions from reporters, besides said the baseless allegations were "disappointing."

Iravani's comments followed a closed-door U.N. Security Council gathering wherever the United States, Britain and France raised the implications of Iranian arms transfers to Russia.

The 3 nations — besides members of the archetypal 2015 Iran atomic woody — accidental that by providing Russia with drones Iran has violated a U.N. Security Council resolution. The resolution, known arsenic 2231, prohibits the transportation "of each items, materials, equipments and goods and technology" from Iran to different federation unless approved successful beforehand by the U.N. Security Council connected a lawsuit by lawsuit basis.

Iravani said that specified transfers are "outside the scope" of the 2015 solution and therefore, Tehran has not violated its commitments.

Kyiv has meantime invited U.N. experts to inspect what it says are downed Iranian drones successful Ukraine, according to a Reuters report.

In caller days, Moscow has carried retired respective devastating rocket and drone strikes against what Ukraine said were civilian targets arsenic good arsenic captious infrastructure similar vigor facilities. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied that it uses Iranian-made drones successful Ukraine and that it targets residential and different precocious civilian areas.

Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, told reporters that the drones recovered successful Ukraine are not Iranian but Russian-made.

He said that images of the drones downed successful Ukraine intelligibly person Russian inscriptions connected them. He added though, that helium is not a drone adept and could not elaborate further.

Following the drone strikes, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the 30-member confederation would nonstop drone-jamming instrumentality to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Kyiv has besides suggested breaking disconnected diplomatic ties with Tehran successful airy of the caller arms transfers and drone attacks.