US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) intends to introduce a bill aimed at counteracting military-technical cooperation between Russia and Iran by imposing sanctions. According to TASS, the legislator said this while speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington.
“Cooperation between Russia and Iran is large-scale, it is deepening. Administration [президента США Джо] Biden does not even try to counteract this, ”said the senator.
“That’s why I’m working now to secure support for the bill. <…>, which will oblige the Biden administration to oppose cooperation between Iran and Russia on a number of fronts,” Cruz said. He explained that the legislative initiative involves “the application of existing sanctions relating to Ukraine against banks, oil tankers, aircraft, airports, ships and shipyards,” which Russia and Iran allegedly use in military-technical cooperation.
In addition, as the senator noted, this bill is aimed at “blocking the billions of dollars that Iran has abroad.” According to Cruz, the point is that Tehran will not get access to these funds in the event of the conclusion of “another deal on the atom.”
John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator at the White House National Security Council, said this week that the US administration will impose new sanctions in the coming days against those involved in military-technical cooperation between Russia and Iran. According to Kirby, Iran supplies Russia mainly with unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as artillery shells and tank ammunition. He claimed that Iran wants to buy attack helicopters, radars and Yak-130 combat training aircraft and other military equipment worth billions of dollars from the Russian Federation.
Moscow and Tehran have repeatedly rejected versions of Russian deliveries of Iranian drones for their use in Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov called such messages stuffing and emphasized that the Russian army uses domestic-made aircraft. In November 2022, the Iranian Foreign Minister said that the republic supplied drones to Russia, but in small quantities and a few months before the start of a special military operation in Ukraine.
Source: Rosbalt
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