The ambassadors of the United Kingdom France, the Netherlands and Germany have been summoned to Iran's Foreign Ministry over allegations that Tehran sent ballistic missiles to Moscow, Iran's Mizan news agency reported on Thursday.
In a joint statement on Tuesday, Germany, UK and France threatened Iran with new sanctions, including cancellation of bilateral air service agreements, over Tehran's alleged deliveries of short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use in combat operations in Ukraine. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said these allegations were false.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that such information does not always correspond to reality. Peskov called speculations about alleged ongoing arms supplies to Russia from abroad groundless.
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Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the heads of the British, French, German and Dutch embassies on Thursday, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported, following accusations of missile transfers to Russia and the imposition of new sanctions.
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The US, Britain, Germany and France also announced new sanctions on Iran, including measures against its national airline Iran Air.