Russia’s use of an Iranian air base to bomb targets in Syria sends a message to Washington as it weighs a military partnership with Moscow: Join us or we’ll look to your enemies.
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The resolution governs some military interactions between Iran and other countries, including the supply, sale or transfer of military technologies or the provision of training or financial assistance related to the acquisition of new technologies.
“There are no reasons to suspect Russian Federation of breaking the United Nations resolution”, he said.
He told a parliamentary session: “We have not given a military base to anyone”. Yesterday’s strikes marked the first time Russian Federation had flown any planes in the operation from a base other than bases inside Russian Federation and Syria. The Russian jets are stationed out of an Iranian air base.
Lavrov says “there has been no supply, sale or transfer of combat jets to Iran” and insisted that the Russian Air Force’s presence in Iran is only about using its facilities. Prior to Iranian Hamedan Airbase, Russian air forces used Syrian Khmeimim Airbase.
“There’s nothing even to discuss here”. On Wednesday, a spokesman for Russia’s Ministry of Defense, Maj.
“So we’re looking at it and we’re trying to make a sober assessment of whether this constitutes, in our view, a violation”, Toner added.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday Russian warplanes have taken off from a base in Iran to target Islamic State fighters in Syria.
“The matter should be considered a strategic and necessary cooperation in the fight against terrorism”, said former Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, who is now a foreign policy consultant to Iran’s supreme leader.
But when asked about such a collaboration by CNN’s Clarissa Ward Wednesday, the former American ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, said, “It’s not at all clear you can trust the Russians”.
“The only action taking place is that Russian fighters are allowed to use this base to refuel”, said Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
For roughly the past year, Russian Federation has been supporting the Syrian government with airstrikes against the Islamic State, which continues to maintain a presence in the heavily fractured country.
In Syria, seven civilians were killed and nine were wounded by rocket rounds fired by armed groups on a government-controlled district of the city of Aleppo, Syria’s state-run news agency said Wednesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 10 civilians including a child had been killed in the rebel shelling. It is located in an opposition-held part of contested Aleppo province.
The bombardment came as regime forces fight rebels and militants southwest of the battleground city after opposition fighters gained ground there earlier this month, the Observatory said. The move came with little notice to the United States, which has watched helplessly the escalating bloodshed near Aleppo, the country’s biggest city, and even offered an alliance with Russian Federation against Islamic State and other extremist fighters as a way to get Syria’s government out of the fight. They said the US must get rebels to break ranks with Nusra, a task that may be more hard after its fighters successfully broke Aleppo’s siege earlier this month.
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“In Aleppo we risk seeing a humanitarian catastrophe unprecedented in the over five years of bloodshed and suffering in the Syrian conflict”, Ban told the UN Security Council in his latest monthly report on aid access, seen by Reuters.
