Redirects: "Iranian arms smuggling"
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Arms exports to Iran, as well as arms export by Iran are banned under a United Nations embargo. [1] Despite this ban, Iran is actively involved in illegal attempts to export and import arms and is considered one of the world's leading arms traffickers.[ citation needed]
In response to Iran's refusal to discontinue its nuclear arms program, the The Security Council adopted resolution 1747, a set of four sanctions intended to block Iran’s suspected development of nuclear weapons. The measures, which demand that Iran halt uranium enrichment, also bar exports of arms and explosives and urge all nations to intercept Iranian cargo suspected of containing banned materials. [2]
Iran is Hamas's chief arms provider, smuggling through Sudan and Sinai.
Turkey's foreign minister says the country's authorities have intercepted an arms shipment from Iran to Syria.
The plane was bound for Aleppo, Syria, and was given permission to pass through Turkish airspace provided it made a 'technical stop' at Diyarbakir airport, the report said. It said a search of the Iranian 'YasAir Cargo Airlines' Ilyushin-76 revealed a number of 'prohibited military items' -- 60 Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, 14 BKC/Bixi machine guns, nearly 8,000 rounds of BKC/AK-47 ammunition, 560 60-mm mortar shells, and 1,288 120-mm mortar shells.
British troops in Helmand province fighting the Taliban face a new danger as sophisticated Iranian weapons and explosives are being smuggled into Afghanistan. In the dusty frontier town of Islam Qala, near Herat, on the Afghan side of the border with Iran, weapons and explosives such as armour-piercing roadside bombs are being trafficked to the insurgents.
Redirects: "Iranian arms smuggling"
Lead section
Arms exports to Iran, as well as arms export by Iran are banned under a United Nations embargo. [1] Despite this ban, Iran is actively involved in illegal attempts to export and import arms and is considered one of the world's leading arms traffickers.[ citation needed]
In response to Iran's refusal to discontinue its nuclear arms program, the The Security Council adopted resolution 1747, a set of four sanctions intended to block Iran’s suspected development of nuclear weapons. The measures, which demand that Iran halt uranium enrichment, also bar exports of arms and explosives and urge all nations to intercept Iranian cargo suspected of containing banned materials. [2]
Iran is Hamas's chief arms provider, smuggling through Sudan and Sinai.
Turkey's foreign minister says the country's authorities have intercepted an arms shipment from Iran to Syria.
The plane was bound for Aleppo, Syria, and was given permission to pass through Turkish airspace provided it made a 'technical stop' at Diyarbakir airport, the report said. It said a search of the Iranian 'YasAir Cargo Airlines' Ilyushin-76 revealed a number of 'prohibited military items' -- 60 Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, 14 BKC/Bixi machine guns, nearly 8,000 rounds of BKC/AK-47 ammunition, 560 60-mm mortar shells, and 1,288 120-mm mortar shells.
British troops in Helmand province fighting the Taliban face a new danger as sophisticated Iranian weapons and explosives are being smuggled into Afghanistan. In the dusty frontier town of Islam Qala, near Herat, on the Afghan side of the border with Iran, weapons and explosives such as armour-piercing roadside bombs are being trafficked to the insurgents.