[IsraelTimes] Britain says state-owned Iran Air and Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines to face asset freeze and restrictions for supplying weapons for war against Ukraine.The United Kingdom imposed sanctions against Iran’s national airline and shipping carrier on Monday, measures it said were taken in response to Iran’s transfer of ballistic missiles and military supplies to Russia.
The state-owned Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
Air and Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) will face an asset freeze for its role in supplying weapons to Russia for use on the battlefield against Ukraine, Britannia said.
"Iran’s attempts to undermine global security are dangerous and unacceptable," British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said. "We reiterate our call on Iran to cease its support for Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine."
The sanctions will further restrict Iran Air’s direct commercial air services to and from the UK.
Britannia also sanctioned the Russian Port Olya-3 cargo ship, which delivered the weapons, and said it would not be allowed to enter any UK port.
Iran Air has been designated for sanctions several times over the past year, including measures imposed by the US, UK, Germany La Belle France and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
. The airline is fully banned from operating at EU airports, and other measures have been taken to restrict the airline’s ability to fly through European airspace.
In September, the United States accused Iran of supplying ballistic missiles to Russia, calling it a "dramatic escalation."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...told news hounds that "Russia has now received shipments of these ballistic missiles," and that the "supply of Iranian missiles enables Russia to use more of its arsenal for targets that are further from the front line."
"This development and the growing cooperation between Russia and Iran threatens European security and demonstrates how Iran’s destabilizing influence reaches far beyond the Middle East," Blinken said.
Blinken said Iran has trained dozens of Russian military personnel to use its Fath-360 close-range ballistic missile system, which has a maximum range of 75 miles (121 km).
Iran has previously supplied Shahed drones used by Russia in Ukraine, but has denied providing Russia with ballistic missiles.
The Kremlin hasn’t explicitly rejected the accusation, and has said that Russia was cooperating with Iran including on "the most sensitive" areas.
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