Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the parliament to approve a recent resolution regarding 50-year sanctions against the Islamic Republic following earlier allegations on Iran’s role in arms supply to Russia.
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Introduced on Sunday, the bill includes a complete ban on trade with Iran, investments, and transferring technologies.
It forbids Iranian transit across Ukrainian territory as well as the use of its airspace and prevents the withdrawal of Iranian assets from the East European country.
The bill also prohibits the National Bank of Ukraine from registering an international payment system operated by Iran, obliging the cabinet, the Foreign Intelligence Service, and the Security Service to implement the anti-Iran restrictive measures.
The Ukrainian parliament is expected to back the sanctions bill, which has already been approved by the National Security and Defense Council.
The legislature has not scheduled the vote yet, according to its website.
Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said the draft resolution is a response to Iran’s alleged arms supply to Russia.
In a video address last week, Zelensky claimed that Iranians were being dragged to “the dark side of history” over Tehran’s alleged supply of drones to Moscow.
In response, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said the Ukrainian president had put up a “political show” full of “worthless” allegations in a bid to attract more Western arms.
“The repetition of false claims by the Ukrainian president against the Islamic Republic is in line with the propaganda and media war of the anti-Iranian axis against Iran’s government and people with the aim of securing as much arms and financial aid as possible from Western countries,” he said in a statement on Saturday.
Ukraine and Western countries have repeatedly accused Iran of providing Russia with military drones for use in the war, a charge categorically rejected by Tehran.
