West asserts claim on Iran’s drones to dismantle JCPOA: Russian diplomat
A Russian diplomat has addressed a meeting at the United Nations by saying that accusations and media campaigns on Iranian drones have been projected by the West, especially the United States, to uproot the 2015 nuclear deal.
The stories on the alleged sale of Iran-made drones to Russia are being put forward with the aim of finalizing the plan of dismantling the nuclear agreement officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), said Konstantin Vorontsov, the acting deputy director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Russian Federation.
Speaking in a meeting of the First Committee of the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Vorontsov said that Moscow categorically rules out the fake and unfounded claims of the Western states on the alleged delivery of Iranian drones to Russia.
The reason behind such a constant propaganda campaign is fully apparent, which is the US that withdrew from the JCPAO in May 2018, now raises a new excuse to finalize the termination of the internationally recognized deal, the Russian diplomat said.
Such short-sighted efforts will bear no fruit because as the saying goes, “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind,” he warned.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the Western and Ukrainian officials’ claims on Russia’s usage of Iranian drones in the Ukraine war are completely baseless.
Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amirabdollahian said on the same day that the Islamic Republic has not delivered any weapons or drones to Russia to be utilized in the war against Ukraine and that Tehran will not do such a thing.
The Iranian top diplomat noted that Iran has imported and exported some arms from and to Russia, but the Islamic Republic is against the war in Ukraine, so the Iranian side has not delivered any weapons to Russia to be used in the Ukraine conflict.