An investigation by theipaper has revealed an extraordinary Iranian airlift from Tehran to Moscow which Western allies claim is ferrying Russia weaponry from suicide drones to what Ukraine fears is an imminent arrival of ballistic missiles 🔴 deankir...
that Moscow is sending not only vast sums of money to pay for Iranian arms but sweeteners to seal its deal with the ayatollahs which include British and Western weaponry captured in Ukraine and nuclear expertise.
The flights by jets owned by companies linked to the Iranian state or military, in particular the all-powerful Revolutionary Guard , have been occurring at a rate of at least two a week and can be shown to visit in some cases highly-sensitive military airport facilities. Assistant US commerce secretary Matthew Axelrod, announcing the sanctions in September, said Putin was using Iran to “backfill” supplies and the planes were “flying and transporting goods, including electronic items” to Russia in apparent violation of US export controls.
The source said: “The Iranians don’t really have an air mobility wing like the UK or the US. Some of the Boeing 747s they are using are nearly 40 years old. They’re taking a risk [of the munitions blowing up en route] trying to get these things to the front, but that’s because they are incentivised to do that.
In 2018, the US Treasury accused Mahan of transporting IRGC’s Qud Force “operatives, weapons, equipment and funds abroad”. The fourth jet, Saha Airline’s jet EP-SIH, has made five trips to the Russian capital, the tracking data analysed by. Satellite images of a Saha Airlines liveried Boeing 747 with its nose cone open being loaded or unloaded on the military side of Iran’s Mashhad airport shortly after EP-SIH, thought to be the airline’s only jumbo jet, returned from Moscow.
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