Iran’s parliamentary speaker said Wednesday the country hadn’t compromised its sovereignty in agreeing to allow Russian Federation to carry out airstrikes in Syria from an Iranian air base.
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State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Russia’s continued use of the Iranian base to strike Syrian targets “doesn’t help” to reach a cessation of hostilities in the country’s civil war between government forces and militants.
Russian Federation has launched warplanes from Iran for the second time to bomb the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group in Syria, denying the action violated a United Nations Security Council resolution.
The defence ministry in Moscow said on Wednesday that Russian Su-34 warplanes took off from an airbase in Iran and conducted a raid against ISIL in the Syrian province of Deir al-Zour.
Toner said Tuesday that Russia’s actions did “not preclude the fact that we will reach some kind of cooperative arrangement with Russian Federation”.
Russian Federation also gave advance notice to the U.S. -led coalition battling ISIL in Syria and Iraq, complying with the terms of a safety agreement meant to avoid an accidental clash in the skies, said U.S. Army Col. Christopher Garver, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the U.S. -led coalition.
They say Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will gather in Geneva on August 26.
Another member of parliament, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, asked about the constitutionality of allowing Russian military aircraft to operate from Iran, according to IRNA, Iran’s state news agency.
US Secretary of States John Kerry, right, gestures beside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a news conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 12, 2016. “Russia hasn’t supplied or transferred Russian military planes to Iran”. Russian Federation also gave advance notice to the U.S. -led coalition battling Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, complying with the terms of a safety agreement meant to avoid an accidental clash in the skies, said U.S. Army Colonel Christopher Garver, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the U.S-led coalition.
While Russia has claimed that it is striking terrorist targets, US officials say it is mostly targeting the opposition, including those backed by the West. “Such testing should begin with the knowledge of the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2331, which requires getting UN Security Council’s consent to the sale, handover and use of combat planes inside Iran”, Konashenkov said.
This follows a move this week by Russian Federation to start using an Iranian airbase to launch attacks into Syria.
“Russia and Iran are partners in the killing of the Syrian people and partners in support of Assad”.
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“Flying Russian jets from the Nojeh air base (in Hamadan) is in compliance with the Supreme National Security Council’s ratification and within the quadrilateral cooperation framework among Iran, Russia, Iraq, and Syria”, said Alaeddin Boroujerdi said, head of the parliamentary committee for national security and foreign policy. For more on the humanitarian and medical crisis in Syria, we speak with Dr. Zaher Sahloul, founder of the American Relief Coalition for Syria and senior adviser and former president of the Syrian American Medical Society.
