White House: We have not seen any sign of providing Iranian drones to Russia
John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator of the US National Security Council, told reporters on Tuesday, local time, that the US has not seen any sign of the supply or purchase of Iranian drones from Russia. But the fact that Putin turned to Iran for such technology and ability contains a lot of messages.
The White House official also announced that topics related to the upcoming phone call between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to include tensions over Taiwan and Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
The strategic communications coordinator of the American National Security Council added that it is expected that the management of the competition between the two countries will also be discussed in this call.
This will be the fifth call between Biden and Xi Jinping.
According to IRNA, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser of the White House on July 11, on the eve of US President Joe Biden’s visit to the West Asia region, claimed among reporters that according to US information, Iran is preparing to send drones to Russia for use in Ukraine. Is.
He also claimed that Tehran is preparing to train the Russians to work with these drones, but it is not clear whether Iran has already provided these drones to Russia or not.
He claimed: Tehran is preparing to train the Russians to work with these drones.
However, a senior official of the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) announced following the claims of his country’s officials that there is still no sign of Russia using Iranian weapons in the Ukraine war.
This senior Pentagon official, whose name was not disclosed, told reporters: “There are still no signs of Iranian weapons among Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.”
US Defense Secretary (Pentagon) Lloyd Austin also said about the claims that Iran sent drones to Russia: We advise Iran not to provide the drones to Russia, and I think this is a very bad idea.
General Mark Milley, the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said: I don’t think it is a good idea for the Iranians to provide drones and other equipment to Russia.
Ned Price, the spokesperson of the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has also said: We will closely follow the developments. All of our sanctions are still in place and any deal with Iran regarding drones will be subject to our sanctions as well as a number of countries around the world.
At the same time, Nasser Kanani, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, in response to the journalists’ question regarding the statements of the US National Security Advisor regarding the sale of modern Iranian technologies to Russia, clarified: the history of cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation in the field of certain technologies Hai Navin dates back to before the war in Ukraine, and there have been no special developments in this connection in the recent period.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs added: The position of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the war in Ukraine is quite clear and has been officially announced many times.
Kanaani further added: the claim of the American official is that the US and the Europeans have for years turned the occupying and aggressor countries, including in the West Asian region, into a warehouse of their various deadly weapons, without these weapons, the continuation of more than Seven decades of aggression, crime and occupation by the Zionists in the occupied territories was not possible.