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Anyone Surprised Here? U.N. Experts Trace Recent Seized Arms to Iran Violating Embargo (Video)
Sunday, June 29, 2014 11:47
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U.N. Experts Trace Recent Seized Arms to Iran Violating Embargo
June 29 2014
Sorry to hear Mary has had problems in the comment section, please respect one another. Difference of opinion is fine, but use respect always. Please. As far as the video, I for one am not at all surprised by Irans actions. What about you?
(Reuters) – A U.N. expert panel has concluded that a shipment of rockets and other weapons that was seized by Israel came from Iran and represents a violation of the U.N. arms embargo on Tehran, according to a confidential report obtained by Reuters on Friday.
The finding comes just days ahead of the next round of negotiations in Vienna between Iran and six world powers aimed at securing a deal that would gradually lift international sanctions on Tehran — including the arms embargo — in exchange for curbs on the controversial Iranian nuclear program.
Despite Israel’s public statements that the seized arms were destined for Gaza — an allegation that Gaza’s governing Islamist militant group Hamas dismissed as a fabrication — the experts said the weapons were being sent to Sudan.
The experts do not speculate in the report about why the arms were being sent to Sudan, a country which Western diplomatic and intelligence sources have told Reuters has in the past been a conduit for Iranian arms shipments to other locations in Africa, as well as the Gaza Strip. Read more
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