Smuggling, gray import, Beijing: Who helps Iran to supply weapons

Whether the event will be able to stop the supply of Iranian weapons to the Russian Federation" Agia Zagrebelskaya, the founder of the League of Antitrast, explains that the strict sanctions regime only limited the possibility of a defense program of Iran and slowed its development, but did not destroy it.

After all, Iran found the opportunity to buy the necessary accessories in the black market, managed to grow his weapons specialists and, having enlisted Beijing's support, did not stop the production of weapons. The fact that the Iranian side does not recognize the supply of Russia's weapons, the interlocutor of Focus explains the contradiction of such actions with the resolution of the UN Security Council 2231, which is aimed at limiting the nuclear program of Iran.

This document, adopted in 2015, contains a schedule of international nuclear program execution inspections and grounds for removing the UN sanctions from Iran. "Tehran is violating the UN resolution for the first time - Iran has supplied Hussites in Yemen, Hamas and other Iranian proxy (terrorist grouping), and further used for attacks on Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Lebanon," Zagrebelsk adds.

That is, paradoxically, a country against which strict financial and other sanctions, which are part of the North Korea in the black list of Fatf (group for the development of financial measures to combat money), manage to supply their weapons and receive their weapons for several decades for several decades. Payment. As Agia Zagrebelsk explains by selling weapons, Iran receives alternative forms of payment - from the currencies of states that have not joined sanctions, to cryptocurrencies.

And for the delivery of goods, Iranian transport or logistics of the buyer is used. Anatoly Amelin, co -founder and director of economic programs Ukrainian Institute for the Future names such three main mechanisms that allow Iran to trade weapons: recall, after the beginning of the Russian full -scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, Russian media reported unity of financial messages transmission systems bypassing SWIFT.

After all, Iran was completely deprived of SWIFT in 2012 because of attempts by nuclear technologies for military purposes, and in Russia, a number of banks were switched off from SWIFT. "Countries use many mechanisms to avoid sanctions," political scientist Victor Taran summarizes in the comment of focus. - For example, to bypass the oil embargo of Russia, which is introduced since December 2022, a gray tanker fleet is already being prepared.

, where there is no control over the budget, it is not of great difficulty at all. Cash and cryptocurrencies and more can be used here. " In addition to carrying out weapons payments, it is also surprising that Iran, under sanctions, continues to find access to technologies and components that are necessary for the production of drones, ballistic missiles and other weapons.

However, according to Anatoly Amelin, electronics and other forbidden goods bypassing US control can be imported into Iran as gray imports or smuggling. Usually, the cost of such gray imports is 15-20% higher than that of legal supply. That is, the following factors help to circumvent Iran's sanctions: more about the reaction of the world community to the supply of Iranian weapons of Russia and possible measures to influence Iran, read in the inspection of focus "to suppress" mopeds.