US Says Iranian Troops Directly Engaged In Ukraine War

In a briefing by Ned Price of the State Department, he said that the US has proof that Iranian troops are directly engaged in the Ukraine war.

Despite protests from the Kremlin, the EU on Thursday imposed further sanctions on Iran for providing "kamikaze" drones to the Russian military for use in the conflict in Ukraine.

The new move, which also has American support, lists three Iranian generals as well as arms producers as targets. EU ambassadors "agreed on measures against entities supplying Iranian drones that hit Ukraine after three days of talks," according to a statement from the Czech president of the EU. The EU is also poised to impose sanctions on four additional Iranian businesses that were previously listed on a sanctions list.

According to the AFP, "the Revolutionary Guards drone commander Brigadier General Saeed Aghajani, logistics officer General Sayed Hojatollah Qureishi, and the chief of staff of Iran's armed forces, Major General Mohammed Hossein Bagheri,...