Iran denies having signed a joint drone manufacturing deal with Russia. It also denies providing Shaheed 131/136s that Russia uses to kill Ukrainian civilians. The evidence contradicts Tehran denials.
Iran and Russia are planning to build a new factory in Russia’s Tatarstan republic that will likely be capable of producing at least 6,000 Iran-designed drones in the coming years.U.S. officials, the Journal reported that Iranian military leaders visited the site of the new factory, located near the city of Yelabuga some 200 kilometers east of Tatarstan’s capital Kazan, on January 5:
“The officials said the Iranian delegation was led by Brig. Gen. Abdollah Mehrabi, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization, and Ghassem Damavandian, the chief executive of Iran’s Quds Aviation Industry, a key defense manufacturer that the U.S. says is central to developing and building the country’s drones.”Russia and Iran finalized the drone-production deal during a meeting in Iran last November. Citing Western and U.S. officials who saw intelligence reports on the agreement, the newspaper said the mutually beneficial deal “is proceeding quickly from decision-making to implementation.
These new attack drones are believed to possess range and speed capabilities superior to the cheap, lightweight Shahed 131/136 drones. Iran has already delivered andenied that Tehran has provided Moscow with weapons used against Ukraine. However, Ukraine has presented abundant evidence to the contrary, including the wreckage of hundreds of
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