Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled new sanctions on seven people involved in Iran’s aerospace and aviation sector as Western powers move to reinforce Ukraine’s ability to down the drones that Russia has acquired from Tehran.
“Iran has now become Russia’s top military backer,” Blinken said Friday. “Iran must cease its support for Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine, and we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to disrupt and delay these transfers and impose costs on actors engaged in this activity.”Those new sanctions add a punitive layer to recent Western efforts to upgrade Ukraine’s air defense systems in the face of Russia’s sustained bombardment of Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Biden’s decision to green-light a Patriot transfer set the stage for a broader upgrade of Western equipment to Ukraine. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who decided last month to send a German-owned Patriot to Poland but declined Warsaw’s proposal to place the battery in western Ukraine, opted to follow Biden’s lead.
That statement also heralded the delivery of U.S. and German infantry fighting vehicles, one day after French President Emmanuel Macron’s team announced that Paris would send wheeled “light tanks” to Ukraine.
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