MOSCOW (Dispatches) -- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says U.S. accusations that Tehran may send ballistic missiles to Russia did not merit an answer.
“I don’t think this is worth a comment. We have been developing our relations with Iran, including defense cooperation, but we do not comment on this information,” Peskov stated.
Earlier, U.S. National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that Tehran may be considering providing Russia with ballistic missiles for use in Ukraine.
Both Iran and Russia have repeatedly denied claims that Tehran has provided Moscow with weapons to be used in the Ukraine war.
Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian has stressed that Iran’s defense cooperation with Moscow has never involved the use of Iranian drones or weapons in the Ukraine war as Russia itself is one of the world’s biggest arms producers and exporters.
“We have provided no parties [to the war] with drones for use in Ukraine,” he asserted.
Iran has expressed it objection to the arming of any party to the Ukraine war, saying the flow of American and Western weapons to the former Soviet country will stoke insecurity and instability there and cause further deaths and destruction.