TEHRAN — A
top Iranian general sanctioned by the
EU for allegedly supplying Russia with
drones has mocked the bloc by telling them to “buy coal” for winter with his
assets, media reported.
اضافة اعلان
The chief of staff of the armed forces, Maj.
Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, was among three Iranian military officials put on recent
EU and British sanctions lists.
Kyiv and its Western allies have accused
Moscow of using Iranian-made drones in attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks.
Tehran denies having provided Moscow weapons “to be used” in the war.
“They are allowed to identify and confiscate
all the properties and assets of Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri in
banks around the world and use them to buy coal for European citizens, a
difficult winter is ahead,” Bagheri said in a message posted by local media,
including Tasnim and Fars news agencies, late Sunday.
The sanctions are largely symbolic, as they
include a ban on entry and the freezing of any assets they hold in the bloc.
The war in Ukraine has pushed energy prices
skywards, with Russian gas deliveries to most of Europe recently halted.
The EU’s 27 member states have been
squabbling for months over measures to lower energy bills as winter nears.
Bagheri called the imposition of
EU sanctions a “mistake” similar to those the United States made when it
sanctioned him in 2019.
Last month, Kyiv decided to significantly reduce its
diplomatic relations with Tehran over alleged arms deliveries to Moscow.
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