2023-10-05 00:33:44
2023-10-05 08:33 Compiled by United Daily News Lu Silun/Real-time reporting
CNN reported that the U.S. Central Command (Central Command) confirmed on the 4th that Iranian ammunition seized by the United States will be transferred to Ukraine to alleviate the weapons shortage problem of the Ukrainian army as it awaits Western military assistance.
Previously, the U.S. military had provided more than one million ammunition seized from Iran by the Ukrainian armed forces on the 2nd. The Central Command statement read, “On July 20, 2023, the U.S. government acquired the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) through the Department of Justice’s civil forfeiture pipeline. Guard Corps) ammunition weapons.”
The U.S. Department of Justice announced in March that it requested the confiscation of ammunition seized by the U.S. Navy from Iran for smuggling into Yemen, including 1 million rounds of ammunition, thousands of rocket-propelled grenade proximity fuses, and thousands of pounds of rocket-propelled grenade propellant.
The statement also mentioned that “this batch of ammunition was originally seized by the US Central Command from the transiting stateless dhow “MARWAN 1” on December 9, 2022. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps violated United Nations Security Council Resolution 2216 and smuggled ammunition to the Houthis in Yemen.
The U.S. Central Command confirmed on the 4th that the seized Iranian ammunition will be transferred to Ukraine to alleviate the shortage of weapons while waiting for military assistance…
The Biden administration has been considering for months how to legally send the seized weapons, which are stored at Central Command facilities in the Middle East, to Ukraine.
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