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Russia has received new and highly deadly ballistic weapons from Iran and is likely to use them in Ukraine said the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken. This statement was made during his trip to London last Tuesday, as he prepared to travel with UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, to Kyiv. An announcement on long range weapons for Ukraine to counter this threat was expected, but never came.

Iran’s supply of weapons is a genuine escalation of the conflict. Ukraine’s defense of its sovereign territory usually gets accused of escalation, but what Iran and China are doing is the real escalation of the conflict, and the West’s reaction is dithering and timidity once again.

It’s thought that these new munitions may have huge significance to the battlefield balance ahead of the winter, which of course is intense in this part of the world. The US and Europe have imposed new sanctions on Iran, but these have not had any deterrent impact either on Russia’s aggression of Iran’s close support of its ally.

Pressure is building on the US to end its restrictions on Ukraine using British-supplied Storm Shadows to strike targets deep inside Russia and not just in occupied parts of Ukraine. But so far, the Biden administration has stubbornly refused to relent, showing them in the same light as Scholz’s dogmatic intransigence around the Taurus system. When asked about a decision, Blinken defers and obfuscates, citing Ukraine’s ability to maintain the systems, training and their strategic purpose. He also questions the fallacy of seeing them as a ‘silver bullet’.

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Sources and recommended reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/antony-blinken-russia-ballistic-missiles-iran-ukraine

https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-denies-delivering-ballistic-missiles-aid-to-moscow-s-ukraine-war-effort/7783007.html

https://kyivindependent.com/what-irans-ballistic-missiles-in-russian-hands-could-mean-for-ukraine/

https://www.politico.eu/article/united-states-accuse-china-help-russia-war-kurt-campbell/

https://www.ft.com/content/44ad9fc5-6ccf-47f0-b075-8bef0a9a1cd9

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-putin-iran-nuclear-kharkiv-latest-news-b2613402.html

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-dozens-injured-in-strike-on-apartment-block-zelenskyy-attacks-russian-terror-as-he-pleads-for-help-12541713

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