Iran continues to flout weapons sanctions against the Assad regime in Syria.
[A confidential] report, submitted by a panel of sanctions-monitoring experts to the [U.N.] Security Council's Iran sanctions committee, said the panel investigated three large illegal shipments of Iranian weapons over the past year. …
"Two of these cases involved [Syria], as were the majority of cases inspected by the Panel during its previous mandate, underscoring that Syria continues to be the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers."
The third shipment involved rockets that Britain said last year were headed for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. "The panel recommends the designation [blacklisting] of two entities related to these interdictions," it said. …
The kinds of arms that Iran was attempting to send to Syria before the shipments were seized by Turkish authorities included assault rifles, machine guns, explosives, detonators, 60mm and 120mm mortal shells and other items, the panel said.
The panel launched after Turkish authorities seized an Iranian weapons shipment destined for Syria. Assad has killed thousands of civilians as he clings to power against the pro-Democracy opposition.
