G7 Foreign Ministers Condemn Iran's Export Of Ballistic Missiles To Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (foreground center) joins Group of Seven leaders in Italy in June.

The foreign ministers of the Group of the Seven countries on September 14 condemned "in the strongest terms" Iran's export and Russia's procurement of Iranian ballistic missiles. "Iran must immediately cease all support to Russia's illegal and unjustifiable war against Ukraine and halt such transfers of ballistic missiles, UAVs and related technology, which constitute a direct threat to the Ukrainian people as well as European and international security more broadly," the G7 foreign ministers said in a statement issued from their meeting in Rome. The G7 members -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States -- are the world's leading industrialized countries.