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原文地址：U.S. and U.K. say Iran supplying Russia with ballistic missiles for Ukraine war in “significant escalation”
新闻日期：2024-09-10
英国与美国称伊朗向俄罗斯供应短程弹道导弹以支持乌克兰战争，两国政府宣布将对涉事者实施措施。
美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯和英国外交大臣戴维·拉米在伦敦会晤时指出，这笔交易会让乌克兰面临更大的压力。布林肯说：“俄罗斯现在已收到这批短程弹道导弹，并将在几周内在乌克兰使用它们，打击乌方目标。”他补充道，伊朗提供的导弹使俄罗斯能够用其更多武器攻击更远的前线目标。“此外，俄罗斯还向伊朗提供了所需的技术——这是相互合作的过程，包括核技术以及部分太空信息方面的支持。布林肯表示，美国还将宣布针对伊朗的新制裁措施，其中包括针对伊朗航空公司的额外措施。”
英国政府随后也宣布了新的制裁措施，包括对伊朗的七项新指定和对俄罗斯的三项新措施。
布林肯和拉米还说，他们计划于周三前往乌克兰与乌总统泽连斯基及其他高级官员会面，讨论如何加强乌克兰的防御能力。目前，基辅方面迫切希望获得更多的远程火力支持，并寻求使用美国提供的武器打击俄境内的更远目标。克里姆林宫正努力抵御乌克兰军队发起的突然进攻，在此过程中，泽连斯基的部队在俄罗斯库尔斯克地区已夺回数百平方公里的土地。与此同时，俄军也在东部分区顿巴斯一带的长线战线上不断推进。
关于伊朗导弹供应的消息可能会让泽连斯基进一步加大向美国和其他盟友施加压力，要求允许乌克兰使用西方提供的导弹打击更远的俄罗斯目标，并对莫斯科发射持续空袭的目标进行反击。尽管拜登已同意让乌克兰用美方提供的导弹在自卫时跨越边界射入俄罗斯境内，但出于担忧局势可能升级，他主要限制了射程。不过，乌方并未因此停止自行发射更深入俄境内的武器，包括周二向多个地区（包括莫斯科）发射的大规模爆炸无人机。
美国国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀上周在德国参加的一次乌克兰安全会议上曾宣布，这场由俄罗斯2022年全面入侵引发的战争正处于“关键阶段”。
消息人士透露，关于伊朗导弹供应的消息周末开始浮出水面。据知情人士称，美 intelligence 表示相关交易正在进行。
布林肯提到，这是“一个令人不安的 pattern”，是“具有显著升级”的行为。伊朗方面否认了提供武器给俄罗斯的说法，但白宫已对外公布的intelligence 显示，北朝鲜向俄提供的弹药和导弹正用于对乌作战，而伊朗也向莫斯科供应无人机，并帮助克里姆林宫建设了一家无人机制造工厂。
虽然中国没有直接向俄罗斯提供武器，但它向俄罗斯出售了大量机器工具、微电子元件等技术产品，这些技术反过来被用来生产导弹、坦克、飞机及其他武器。此外，中国还继续大量购买俄罗斯的能源产品，为莫斯科的战争努力提供资金支持。
美国总统拜登将于周五在白宫与英国首相基尔·斯塔默会面，讨论乌克兰自卫问题。
原文摘要：
London — The United States and Britain formally accused Iran on Tuesday of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine, and the allies both said they would take measures to punish those involved. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking alongside British Foreign Secretary David Lammy during a visit to London, said sanctions would be announced later Tuesday. “Russia has now received shipments of these ballistic missiles and will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine, against Ukrainians,” Blinken said. “The supply of Iranian missiles enables Russia to use more of its arsenal for targets that are further from the front line.””For its part, Russia is sharing technology that Iran seeks — this is a two way street — including on nuclear issues, as well as some space information,” Blinken said, adding that among the new sanctions coming from the U.S. would be additional measures targeting Iran Air, the Islamic Republic’s flagship carrier.Britain’s government quickly announced its own new wave of sanctions, including seven new designations under its existing sanctions regime against Iran and three new measures against Russia.Blinken and Lammy also said they were set to pay a joint visit to Ukraine on Wednesday, where they’ll meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other senior officials to discuss bolstering the country’s defenses amid increasingly urgent requests from Kyiv for more and longer-range firepower — and for permission to use American weapons to hit targets deep inside Russian territory. The Kremlin is trying to repel Ukraine’s surprise offensive, which has seen Zelenskyy’s forces claim hundreds of square miles of territory in Russia’s Kursk region. But Russia has also been on the offensive, with its forces continuing to take ground along the long front line that stretches some 600 miles through Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. The accusations about Iranian missiles could embolden Zelenskyy to further ramp up pressure on the U.S. and other allies to allow Ukraine to use Western-supplied missiles to strike deep within Russian territory and to hit sites from which Moscow launches its relentless aerial attacks. President Biden has allowed Ukraine to fire U.S.-provided missiles across the border into Russia in self-defense, but largely limited the distance over concerns about further escalating the conflict. That hasn’t stopped Ukraine from using its own weapons to hit targets deeper in Russia, including a massive wave of explosive drones launched Tuesday at multiple regions including Moscow.U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, in his opening remarks at a Ukrainian security conference last week in Germany attended by Zelenskyy, declared it “a critical moment” in the war ignited by Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion. As CBS News national security correspondent Charlie D’Agata reported, the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the Ramstein Air Base came just days after Zelenskyy’s nation suffered its single worst attack of the year, when two ballistic missiles slammed into a military academy, killing dozens of people and wounding more than 170 others.Lammy called the Iranian missile transfers to Russia “a troubling pattern that we’re seeing. It is definitely a significant escalation.” Iran has denied providing Russia with weapons for its war in Ukraine. “Iran considers the provision of military assistance to the parties engaged in the conflict — which leads to increased human casualties, destruction of infrastructure, and a distancing from cease-fire negotiations — to be inhumane,” according to a recent statement from Iran’s mission to the United Nations.Word of the alleged transfers began to emerge over the weekend, with reports that U.S. intelligence indicated they were underway, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The U.S. and its allies have been warning Iran for months not to transfer ballistic missiles to Russia. CIA Director William Burns, who was in London on Saturday for a joint appearance with his British intelligence counterpart, warned of the growing and “troubling” defense relationship involving Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, which he said threatens both Ukraine and Western allies in the Middle East. The White House has repeatedly declassified and publicized intelligence findings that show North Korea has sent ammunition and missiles to Russia to use against Ukraine, while Iran also supplies Moscow with attack drones and has assisted the Kremlin with building a drone-manufacturing factory.China has held back from providing Russia with weaponry, but it has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry, according to U.S. officials. It has also continued purchasing significant quantities of Russian energy products, helping to fund Moscow’s war efforts. Mr. Biden is set to host British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for talks at the White House on Friday, with support for Ukraine’s defense on the agenda.
