A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander denied reports that Iran was transferring missiles to Russia, Iranian media said on Monday, amid concern in the West that they could be deployed in the war in Ukraine.
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CNN and the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing unidentified sources, that Iran had transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia.
Brigadier Fazlollah Nozari, deputy commander of the Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters, was quoted by the Iranian Labour News Agency as saying: “No missile was sent to Russia and this claim is a kind of psychological warfare.”
“Iran does not support any of the parties to the Ukraine-Russia conflict,” Nozari said.
Iran is alleged to have provided Russia with hundreds of drones during Russia’s 2 1/2-year war against Ukraine, but the transfer of ballistic missiles marks deeper involvement in Moscow’s war.