Israel accuses Iran of violating a UN resolution for being a “global exporter of lethal weapons”

17 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant accused Iran at the Munich Security Conference on Friday of violating a 2015 United Nations Security Council resolution by becoming a global exporter of lethal weapons.

“Iran has become a world exporter of lethal weapons and is in advanced talks with 50 countries around the world. Iran has sold drones that are capable of flying 1,000 kilometers to countries like Belarus,” he explained, according to the newspaper. ‘Haaretz’.

Gallant has called the situation “unacceptable”. “If this is how Iran acts when it has no nuclear capacity, imagine a situation in which a murderous regime has a nuclear arsenal”, he has raised during his speech.

In this sense, he specified that Iran’s role in the arms industry takes place “while the missile embargo remains in force.” “The international community must create an effective alternative to the moribund embargo: a practical deterrence mechanism,” she stated, reported the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.

Iran has recently been sanctioned by different Western countries for its supply of drones to Russia, which are reportedly being used in the war in Ukraine. kyiv, in fact, accuses Tehran of being “complicit” in Russian crimes.