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Blinken confirms Iran supplying Russia with short-range ballistic missiles
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday confirmed that Iran has supplied Russia with short-range ballistic missiles and «will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine.»
«The supply of Iranian missiles enables Russia to use more of its arsenal for targets that are further from the front line, while dedicating new missiles it’s receiving from Iran [for] closer range targets,» Blinken said while speaking alongside British Foreign Secretary David Lammy during a trip to London.
Blinken vowed Tehran would face repercussions for the transfer of ballistic weapons and said the U.S. would be announcing additional sanctions on Iran later on Tuesday.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, arrives for a strategic dialogue meeting with Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)
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«There will be significant economic consequences for Iran’s actions,» he said, adding that European allies were expected to announce their own sanction-based actions against Tehran shortly.
Reports first surfaced on Monday showing that the European Union and its allied partners had received «credible» information that Moscow was receiving the top weaponry from its Middle Eastern ally despite warnings from the U.S. and NATO.
«This development and the growing cooperation between Russia and Iran threatens European security and demonstrates how Iran’s decentralized influence reaches far beyond the Middle East,» Blinken said.
The secretary said Russia and Iran continue to share information in areas of major geopolitical concern, including on nuclear development and space-based technology.
Smoke rises over the Kyiv, Ukraine, skyline after a Russian attack on Monday, July 8, 2024. Russian forces launched multiple ballistic and cruise missiles against Ukrainian targets on Monday, Ukraine’s air force said. (AP Photo/ Evgeniy Maloletka)
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The nuclear watchdog for the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on Monday warned that Iran has continued to develop its nuclear program unchecked for the last three and half years and increased its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium to levels of 60% purity – just shy of weapons-grade uranium, which is achieved with 90% purity levels.
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said he urged new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian – who has expressed an interest in working with Western nations to alleviate sanctions for Iran – to meet with him in the «not to distant future» to establish a «constructive dialogue.»
Vehicles drive past a huge billboard depicting Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, right, and slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at Tehran’s Valiasr Square on Aug. 12, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
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However, Blinken on Tuesday warned that aiding Russia in its deadly war against Ukraine will have crippling consequences for Tehran.
«Iran’s new president and foreign minister have repeatedly said that they want to restore engagement with Europe,» Blinken told reporters Tuesday. «They want to receive sanctions relief. Destabilizing actions like these will achieve exactly the opposite.»
According to Reuters’ reporting, Germany, France and the U.K. have «strongly condemned» Iran’s supply of ballistic missiles to Russia, though no specific sanctions have been announced.
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‘UN80 Initiative’ appears to show world body’s panic over possible DOGE-like cuts
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the «UN80 Initiative» on Wednesday as a project in honor of the international body’s 80th anniversary. On paper, the initiative aims to improve efficiency, review the implementation of mandates and restructure the system. However, several U.N. critics claim that this is the international body’s way of bracing for potential U.S. spending cuts.
«This goes far beyond the technical. Budgets at the United Nations are not just numbers on a balance sheet — they are a matter of life and death for millions around the world,» Secretary-General Guterres told reporters on Wednesday.
He denied that the UN80 Initiative is a «version of DOGE» and said it was not a response to possible U.S. cuts.
Head of the organization DOGE-UN Hugh Dugan dismissed the UN80 Initiative as an «effort to send a great big Hallmark greeting card to the world.»
«He’s had 8 to 10 years of opportunity to start what he’s calling for now, and there is not enough time in his remaining 18 months or 19 months in office that could provide any reason to think that his team is going to pivot and set the world on fire in ways that would be a footrace with whatever Elon Musk is doing,» Dugan told Fox News Digital.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the «UN80 Initiative» on Wednesday as a project in honor of the international body’s 80th anniversary. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
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When pressed by Fox News Digital during the midday briefing if UN80 was meant as a response to U.S. cuts and if the secretary-general was worried about Elon Musk, the Secretary-General spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric referred to the comments the secretary-general made earlier in the day.
Anne Bayefsky, Director, Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President, Human Rights Voices, responded to the secretary-general’s comments. She slammed the U.N. as a «bloated, corrupt and profoundly anti-American and anti-Jewish institution.»
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to address the U.N.’s financial situation next month in a virtual town hall. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
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«Every time a U.S. government begins to try to hold it to account or use the power of the purse to change this nonsensical equation, the U.N. trots out a ‘reform’ fake out and America rolls over. President Trump and DOGE can change this perverse state of affairs,» Bayefsky told Fox News Digital.
«Obviously, Guterres is running scared and deeply concerned that his total nonsense about being engaged in ‘an ambitious reform agenda’ will be called out,» she added.
Internal U.N. documents on its «liquidity crisis» recently obtained by Fox News Digital appeared to show that the intuition was bracing itself for possible DOGE-related spending cuts. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Internal U.N. documents on its «liquidity crisis» recently obtained by Fox News Digital appeared to show that the intuition was bracing itself for possible DOGE-related spending cuts.
Despite the U.N. memo stating that cutting back to 80% of allocated funds would potentially harm entities, insiders told Dugan that they do not see any «real cuts» in it.
Guterres is expected to address the U.N.’s financial situation next month in a virtual town hall. While there was no topic specified in the invitation for the town hall, Dujarric confirmed that finances would be discussed.
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