West demands action against Iran arms for Syria
United Nations, United States
The United States on Monday led western calls for tougher UN action on Iran’s arms supplies to Syria and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
The calls came as Russia blocked a UN panel’s unanimous ruling that a ballistic missile launch by Iran was a breach of international sanctions, diplomats said.
The US government called on the UN Security Council and its sanctions committee to tackle Iran’s alleged breach of UN measures with “increased vigor.”
“The committee should also address the steady of flow of Iranian arms, military support, advisors and training to groups in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq and beyond,” said US acting ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo.
Iran has long supplied weapons to President Bashar al-Assad’s government “knowing they would be used to massacre the Syrian people,” DiCarlo told a Security Council meeting.
The seizure of Iranian arms off the Yemen coast in January “was more than just a sanctions violation, it was an aggressive act to undermine Yemen’s transition,” said the US envoy.
The vessel was intercepted by the Yemeni coastguard in the Arabian Sea on January 23.
The calls came as Russia blocked a UN panel’s unanimous ruling that a ballistic missile launch by Iran was a breach of international sanctions, diplomats said.
The US government called on the UN Security Council and its sanctions committee to tackle Iran’s alleged breach of UN measures with “increased vigor.”
“The committee should also address the steady of flow of Iranian arms, military support, advisors and training to groups in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq and beyond,” said US acting ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo.
Iran has long supplied weapons to President Bashar al-Assad’s government “knowing they would be used to massacre the Syrian people,” DiCarlo told a Security Council meeting.
The seizure of Iranian arms off the Yemen coast in January “was more than just a sanctions violation, it was an aggressive act to undermine Yemen’s transition,” said the US envoy.
The vessel was intercepted by the Yemeni coastguard in the Arabian Sea on January 23.
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