New Smuggling Route Between Russia and Iran
According to Western intelligence agencies findings, Russia sent components of heavy offensive weapons to Russia for maintenance via Syria's Khmeimim air base, in an alleged violation of the 2231 UNSC resolution
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 14/08/2017
Source: wikimedia.org - https://goo.gl/vmAKWt -- (Illustrative photo – not related to the story)
Iranian military hardware had been allegedly sent to Russia in violation of UN Security Council resolution 2231.
Citing an anonymous source in Western intelligence services, the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported that Tehran had secretly sent some components of heavy offensive weapons to Russia for maintenance in an alleged violation of the 2231 UNSC resolution via the Syrian territory.
UN Security Council resolution 2231 "calls upon Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology."
The report claims that aircraft arrived from Iran in June 2017 to the Khmeimim air base – the most significant Russian military base in Syria – and unloaded military hardware that was to be delivered to Russia. The military components were then taken by truck to the Mediterranean port of Tartus and loaded onto a Russian ship named Sparta III. A few days later, the ship arrived at the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea.
According to Welt am Sonntag, the new smuggling route will be part of the tight coordination between Moscow and Tehran, both of which are fighting alongside Assad forces in the Syrian civil war.
[Source: welt.de]
According to Western intelligence agencies findings, Russia sent components of heavy offensive weapons to Russia for maintenance via Syria's Khmeimim air base, in an alleged violation of the 2231 UNSC resolution
Source: wikimedia.org - https://goo.gl/vmAKWt -- (Illustrative photo – not related to the story)
Iranian military hardware had been allegedly sent to Russia in violation of UN Security Council resolution 2231.
Citing an anonymous source in Western intelligence services, the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported that Tehran had secretly sent some components of heavy offensive weapons to Russia for maintenance in an alleged violation of the 2231 UNSC resolution via the Syrian territory.
UN Security Council resolution 2231 "calls upon Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology."
The report claims that aircraft arrived from Iran in June 2017 to the Khmeimim air base – the most significant Russian military base in Syria – and unloaded military hardware that was to be delivered to Russia. The military components were then taken by truck to the Mediterranean port of Tartus and loaded onto a Russian ship named Sparta III. A few days later, the ship arrived at the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea.
According to Welt am Sonntag, the new smuggling route will be part of the tight coordination between Moscow and Tehran, both of which are fighting alongside Assad forces in the Syrian civil war.
[Source: welt.de]
