Iran

Iran is not a party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), but it attended CCW meetings on autonomous weapons systems in 2016, 2018 and 2019.^[1]Human Rights Watch (2020), Stopping killer robots: Country positions on banning fully autonomous weapon systems and retaining human control, … Continue reading

Iran is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Iran has not spoken independently on the need for a legally binding instrument, but it associated itself with the NAM’s statement at the UN General Assembly First Committee in 2021, which stated that ‘NAM is of the view that lethal autonomous weapon systems should be thoroughly deliberated and examined in the context of conformity to international law.’^[2]Statement by Indonesia on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, UN General Assembly First Committee, 12 October 2021, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1d/k1d8072kfx; please note that this link leads to … Continue reading Within the CCW forum, the NAM has stated that ‘there is an urgent need to pursue a legally binding instrument under the Convention that will contain prohibitions and regulations for addressing the humanitarian and international security challenges posed by emerging technologies in the area of LAWS.’^[3]Non-Aligned Movement Geneva Chapter, Working paper submitted by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement and other states parties to the Convention on Certain … Continue reading