✈ In response to the following statement by deputy State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel:
💭 “US Says Iranian Drone Supplies to Russia and Ethiopia Violate UN Resolution
“Earlier today, our French and British allies publicly offered the assessme…
✈ In response to the following statement by deputy State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel:
💭 “US Says Iranian Drone Supplies to Russia and Ethiopia Violate UN Resolution
“Earlier today, our French and British allies publicly offered the assessment that Iran’s supply of these UAVs to Russia is a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, and this is something that we agree with,”
👉 AP Diplomatic Writer Matt Lee asked Mr. Patel :
"Why this, all of a sudden, is now a big violation of 2231 when you didn't call it out as such before? There was nothing done in terms of action on the drones being used in Ethiopia, in Syria… No action on Ethiopia.”
But now, they call it out as 'a big violation of 2231' because these Iranian drones are being used in 'their beloved' Ukraine.
Iran sent Ethiopia armed drones in the summer of 2021 in violation of a standing UN Security Council resolution, the US State Department said on Tuesday.
By the way, Tehran got these drone technology 'inadvertently' from the US (remember the US drones 'lost' flying over Iranian airspace in 2011 & 2019?). In April 2012 (Re-election year of Barack Hussein Obama – and the drone + the billion dollars Obama & Biden given to Iran as a present ), Iran claimed it had copied technology ( reverse-engineering) from a US drone brought down in December 2011 on its eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Israel has also 'inadvertently' contributed to Iran’s drone technology. When the Shahed-129 was unveiled in 2012, some noted similarities to the US MQ-1 Predator. It is a large drone able to carry eight missiles. However, analysts believe that its design can be traced back to a crashed Israeli Hermes 450 drone — two were apparently lost over Iran in the 1990s.
Furthermore, Iran gets more drones from China.
