After analyzing photographs of an anti-tank guided missile used by a militia in Libya, the United Nations Secretary General reported that the weapon "had characteristics consistent with the Iranian-produced Dehlavieh." However, the Secretary General was unable to determine whether the missile had been transferred to Libya in violation of a U.N. arms embargo on Iran, which expired in October 2020. The photographs allegedly surfaced on social media in November 2019. Libya is subject to an ongoing U.N. arms embargo, and an interim report by the Security Council's Libya sanctions committee concluded that what the photographs show is "almost certainly an Iranian manufactured Dehlavieh." The committee said the transfer of the missile system is a violation of the arms embargo on Libya but did not say who transferred it.

Iran passed a law requiring the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to resume enriching uranium to the level of 20 percent, in response to the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top scientist in Iran's nuclear program. The law also compels Iran to expel inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) within two months unless the United States lifts sanctions on Iran's financial and petroleum sectors. The law was subsequently ratified by Iran's Guardian Council. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticized the law, which he described as "damaging for diplomacy." The production of higher levels of enrichment will require Iran to adjust the infrastructure at its Natanz nuclear facility.

German's Bundesbank has kept a multi-billion-euro deposit facility open for Iranian banks, including two that were sanctioned by the United States in October, in an effort to push back against broad U.S. financial sanctions against Iran imposed that month. In a joint letter dated October 26, diplomats from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom argued that the new sanctions could have an adverse effect on humanitarian aid to Iran by making it "prohibitively expensive" for Iranians to purchase food and medicine. At the beginning of 2020, the Bundesbank held 3.8 billion euros in deposits for five Iranian banks, including Bank Melli.

The Israeli military claims Unit 840 of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force (IRGC-QF) is responsible for planting explosives on the border between Israel and Syria. In response, Israel this week struck targets around Damascus connected to the IRGC and to divisions of the Syrian military that cooperate with Iranian forces. Israeli officials also blame Unit 840 for an earlier attempt by four armed men to plant explosives in an unmanned outpost on the Syrian border.