Russia has received new deadly ballistic missiles from Iran for use in Ukraine and is likely to use them, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced on Tuesday in London as he prepared to travel with the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, to Kyiv.

The news, confirmed by the US for the first time and seen as of huge significance to the battlefield balance ahead of Ukraine’s difficult winter, led the US and Europe to impose new sanctions on Iran, so apparently slamming the door on the prospect of a rapprochement between the new reformist Iranian government and the west.

The move may also add to the pressure on the US to end its restrictions on Ukraine using British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia and not just in occupied parts of Ukraine.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    2 months ago

    They likely wouldn’t have, which is why it’s such a big deal now that they are.

    Israel basically forced this to happen due to its illegal attacks on Iran (the bombing and assassinations).

    Take your Zionist talking point elsewhere.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The weapons where already agreed. This is just Russia most likely helping the Iran nuclear program. Russia is struggling and needs to scale up.

      Trying the israel conflict to everything is just … No!