Washington: Another set of sanctions against Iran has been announced by the United States, this time aimed at what Washington calls a "procurement network" for ballistic missiles and drones. It comes as Washington continues to allege that Tehran has been supplying weapons to Russian forces in Ukraine.

According to Tuesday's details from the US Treasury, their alleged "involvement in the purchase of equipment" - including "engines of European origin" - to be used for the Islamic Republic's weapons programs, included four companies in both Iran and Turkey and Three persons were banned. of new measures.

The proliferation of drones and conventional weapons by Iran to its proxies, which has been well documented, is threatening both local security and global stability.

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In a statement, Brian Nelson, Under Secretary of State for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, vowed to "continue to expose foreign procurement networks in any jurisdictions that support Iran's military-industrial complex."

Treasury claimed that the Iran-based Defense Technology and Science Research Center, along with several related companies, works "on behalf" of Tehran's military.

Murat Buç, a Turkish national, was also put on the sanctions blacklist after being accused of helping Iran move "a variety of goods with defense applications", including European-made engines that could be used in the US. Can be done in both drone and surface. air-to-air missiles.

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Bouque was detained in Spain last year at Washington's request and later extradited to the US on charges that he assisted in the shipment of foreign equipment to Iran in defiance of US sanctions.

He and Iranian national Amanallah Pedar, who was also named in the most recent round of sanctions, were both charged on Tuesday over the alleged violations.

Despite repeated allegations by the US that Iran provided drones to Russian troops stationed in Ukraine, Tehran says it sent only a "small number" of the UAVs before fighting broke out last year and no more since Have sent

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Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticized Washington for "global arrogance and imperialism" in a televised speech on Tuesday to celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian New Year.

He claimed that the US is trying to "change the nature of the Islamic Republic" through sanctions and other forms of intervention. Later, in a social media post, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nasser Kanani claimed the US was "intensifying brutal sanctions against the Iranian nation" and called the action a "demonstratement of the US regime's hypocrisy and hostility". ,