Ukrainian media reports that Iranian Fath-360s were delivered by Tehran to Moscow. The West has already announced new sanctions.
The United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany announced new sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, September 10. The reason? They accuse Tehran of having supplied weapons to Russia. Weapons that should be used in the war that opposes it to Ukraine, supported by the West. According to Ukrainian media, including The World The information was relayed on Monday that Iran had delivered “more than 200 Fath-360s” on September 4 and that Iranian instructors were to be sent to the Kazakh border to train the Russian military.
The Fath-360 are missiles carrying no less than 150 kg of explosive charge. Operational since 2022, the Fath-360 benefits from satellite guidance allowing it a margin of error of 30 meters, all while having a range of 120 kilometers. Thus, equipped with such missiles, Moscow should be able to easily reach large Ukrainian cities such as Dnipro, Odessa or Kharkiv.
Tehran denies
This is not the first time that Tehran has delivered weapons to Moscow. Since September 2022, Iran has delivered thousands of long-range attack drones called Shahed, but also artillery munitions and Dehlavieh anti-tank missiles. “This escalation, provoked by both Iran and Russia, constitutes a direct threat to European security,” London, Paris and Berlin said in a joint statement published on Tuesday. But Iran denies this. “The dissemination of false and misleading information about the transfer of Iranian weapons to certain countries is nothing but horrible propaganda and a lie aimed at concealing the extent of the massive and illegal support in weapons from the United States and certain Western countries for the genocide in the Gaza Strip,” it said. on X Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman.