We remain in close contact with our European partners and allies about potential actions we may take.”
As we and our allies made clear at both the G7 summit and the NATO meeting this summer, we are prepared to deliver a swift and severe response if Iran were to move forward with such transfers."
Despite these claims, the missile transfer program demonstrates that the Islamic Republic continues to alienate itself from the international community and contribute to threats against European security. Therefore, we assess the leadership of the Islamic Republic based on their actions, not their statements.”
This is what Iran is choosing to do, it’s choosing to help Russia do these types of things,
The fact they’re relying on criminal elements shows they’re a bit desperate,
Russia has the ability to do a number of things that help perfect Iran’s ballistic missiles that make them more dangerous for use against our friends and partners across the Middle East,
Should Iran ship ballistic missiles of any kinds, close-range or other kinds, it would be a dramatic escalation of that defense partnership,
More sanctions for deepening Russia-Iran military ties will not seriously punish either nation's leaders, as each nation is already deeply sanctioned,
We call on the international community to increase pressure on Tehran and Moscow to protect international peace and security. Iran must completely and finally stop supplying weapons to Russia in order to prove by actions, not words, the sincerity of its political leadership's statements about its non-involvement in fuelling the Russian military killing machine. We warn Tehran that if it is confirmed that Iran has supplied ballistic missiles to the Russian Federation, it will have devastating consequences for Ukrainian-Iranian bilateral relations,
There is no good way of interdicting these kinds of transfers, short of Western powers taking control of the Caspian Sea or the airspace above the Caspian Sea or the airspace above Russia or Iran and triggering an all-out war, which the U.S. is not going to want,
But for a lot of these missile components, the Iranians have been adept at navigating sanctions and procuring parts,
You also should make sure that wherever these Iranian missiles are going to be fired, the targeted people have the military systems to defend themselves and to offset this change in the Russian capability,
The movement of individuals also is something that I’m looking at,
We saw a lot of open-source information about Russian drone operators visiting Iran to be trained in using Iranian drones,
Iran considers the provision of military assistance to the parties engaged in the conflict — which leads to increased human casualties, destruction of infrastructure, and a distancing from cease-fire negotiations — to be inhumane,
We have been warning of the deepening security partnership between Russia and Iran since the outset of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and are alarmed by these reports. Any transfer of Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia would represent a dramatic escalation in Iran's support for Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine."
Iran's position vis-à-vis the Ukraine conflict remains unchanged,
Thus, not only does Iran abstain from engaging in such actions itself, but it also calls upon other countries to cease the supply of weapons to the sides involved in the conflict,