An offshoot of the Department of Defense has declassified and set up a display of Iranian drones used by Russia in Ukraine to convince global leaders to hold Tehran accountable.
The Defense Intelligence Agency, a combat support agency of the Pentagon, started the exhibition at the beginning of the month, and representatives from more than a dozen countries have already come to see it, a senior analyst told a group of reporters on Wednesday.The display includes a nearly fully intact Shahed-131 one-way unmanned aerial vehicle recovered in July 2021 in Karbala, Iraq, that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps acknowledged was its own.
"One of our core functions is to provide information to policymakers to enable informed decision-making and governance," Lt. Col. Robert Carter, DIA spokesman, told the Washington Examiner."Second to that, we have a responsibility to counter disinformation in the public information dimension. This is an enabling tool for policymakers."
The United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine, and France have pushed the U.N. to investigate Iran's decision to provide Russia with drones, though Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has resisted those calls. “Russia and Iran have entered into a full-scale defense partnership that is directly enabling Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine. Russia is using Iranian UAVs to attack Ukrainian population centers and kill Ukrainian civilians," National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told the Washington Examiner.
Russia is constructing a production plant to build its own version of the Shaheds in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, and the NSC said in June it could be"fully operational early next year."
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