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Al Jazeera: Russia defends using Iran base for Syria air strikes

By Al Jazeera.

Published Aug. 17, 2016 at 8:49 pm

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends the East Asia Foreign Ministers' meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) annual ministerial meeting, being held in Vientiane on July 26, 2016.

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Russia has said its use of an Iranian airbase to carry out bombing missions in Syria does not violate a UN resolution that forbids supplying warplanes to Tehran.

“No supplying, selling or transferring of warplanes to Iran has occurred,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on August 17 in comments reported by the Russian state news agency TASS.