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World

Anti-tank missile in Libya looks like Iran-produced weapon: UN

  • Libya has also been subjected to a UN arms embargo since 2011. Independent UN experts report separately to the Security Council on the implementation of those measures.
Published December 9, 2020

NEW YORK: A United Nations analysis of photos of four anti-tank guided missiles in Libya found that one "had characteristics consistent with the Iranian-produced Dehlavieh" missile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reported to the Security Council.

However, he said in his biannual report - submitted to the council late Monday and seen by Reuters on Tuesday - that the UN secretariat was "unable to ascertain if this anti-tank guided missile had been transferred to Libya" in violation of Security Council sanctions on Iran.

The 15-member council banned weapons exports by Iran in 2007. Under a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and key global powers, which is enshrined in a Security Council resolution, the arms restrictions were lifted in October this year.

Israel accused Iran of violating sanctions and submitted photos of the anti-tank guided missiles in Libya to Guterres in May. Just weeks later, Iran wrote to Guterres and "categorically rejected" the Israeli claims as "totally baseless."

Israel said the photos surfaced in November 2019 and that the weapons were being used by militias linked to Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA), which has been fighting the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA).

"Based on the Secretariat's analysis of the photographs provided, the Secretariat established that one of the four anti-tank guided missiles had characteristics consistent with the Iranian-produced Dehlavieh, though no production date for this anti-tank guided missile was visible," Guterres' report said.

"The Secretariat is unable to ascertain if this anti-tank guided missile had been transferred to Libya in a manner inconsistent with resolution 2231 (2015)," the report said.

Guterres reports twice a year to the Security Council on the implementation of the 2015 resolution.

Libya has also been subjected to a UN arms embargo since 2011. Independent UN experts report separately to the Security Council on the implementation of those measures.

In an excerpt from a confidential interim report submitted in August to the Security Council's Libya sanctions committee, also seen by Reuters on Tuesday, the experts said images taken from social media in November 2019 showed what is "almost certainly an Iranian manufactured Dehlavieh anti-tank guided missile system in possession of an armed group affiliated to the GNA."

The experts said the transfer of the missile system was a "non-compliance" with the UN arms embargo on Libya, but they did not say who had transferred it.

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